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- From: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov (John Hutchinson)
- Subject: Re: Reason for Falcon delay
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.171657.11195@newshost.lanl.gov>
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- Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
- References: <1992Nov12.085033.18063@ugle.unit.no>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 17:16:57 GMT
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- In article 18063@ugle.unit.no, anderss@colargol (anderss) writes:
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- > The reason for the delay of the Falcon is that Atari has
- >pulled it back and redesigned the graphics system. This was done
- >when they got the specifications for the A1200. The Falcon has now
- >been improved with higher graphic resolutions, the max. resolution
- >is now 1280*960. (I don't know how many colors there will be in this
- >resolution). This is done to ensure that the Falcon is better than
- >the A1200 in all ways!!!
- > The minimum RAM config. will now be 4MB, and the new Falcon will
- >cost the same as the 1MB Falcon was supposed to ship for.
- > Machines should be shipping by the end of next week. (Unless Atari
- >decide something else...)
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- Sheesh! Thank goodness for users otherwise we _developers_ would NEVER know
- what's going on behind closed doors at Sunnyvale! :)
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- What's the source of your info, Anders? A hot line to Jack or Leonard? :)
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