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- From: hyc@hanauma.jpl.nasa.gov (Howard Chu)
- Subject: Re: Falcon '030 BUS: 16 or 32 bit?
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 04:33:06 GMT
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- In article <28341@castle.ed.ac.uk> marks@castle.ed.ac.uk (Mark Steyn) writes:
- >I have owned an A500 (yes, I suppose that does make me one of the enemy)
- >for the past 3 years now and am saving up to upgrade to an as yes
- >undecided 'something better'. The Falcon looked *so* good to start
- >with, but *if* this is really true (I stress the if because I wait for
- >further postings - I still have difficulty believing it) I doubt I will
- >ever buy a Falcon.
-
- Well, I wouldn't doubt John Townsend's post. If you're really being cynical
- you might think the usenet poster forged the article, but there's no reason
- to have don that, so ...
-
- Geeze. The ST has a 16 bit bus, it doesn't look crippled to me... It's
- certainly not going to be as fast as it might have been, but the Falcon is
- by no means a crippled system.
-
- (And at any rate, [heh] there's bound to be a 3rd party board that comes
- along with a zero-wait 32 bit synchronous RAM expansion. It's definitely
- not necessary for the home user, which is what the Falcon is aimed at, but
- I'm sure it'll be there for the hobbyist...)
- --
- -- Howard Chu @ Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
-
- All true wisdom is conveyed in one-line witticisms.
-