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- Subject: Re: Hardware and 8MHz 68000 machines
- Date: Fri, 28 Jan 94 1:04:54 CET
- From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.north.de>
- In-Reply-To: <199401241013.AA03383@ruulot.let.ruu.nl>; from "Annius Groenink" at Jan 24, 94 11:13 am
- Message-Id: <9401280004.AA00179@jelal.north.de>
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- Annius Groenink writes:
-
- > It would be a nice way to finally get the Atari crowd to go for the 030
- > and higher ranges if we would say: forget the 68000. I really don't
- > understand that even Atari themselves don't see this point. I mean
- > 1) developing MiNT and MultiTOS is plainly much harder if one keeps trying
- > to keep everything 000 compatible and 2) it is simply going to cost Atari
- > money because people will stick to their STs. An average PC user upgrades
- > his/her whole system at least three times as often as the average Atari
- > user. That's fine, but it shouldn't get out of hand. The 68000 is history.
- > Developing a new system supporting history is foolish.
-
- i guess the 68000 ataris will simply stay the majority until there
- is a >68030 (40?) atari thats `power without the price' again...
- and 16MHz 68030 is just too little improvement. :(
-
- my $.02
- Juergen
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