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- From: ins739l@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au (William Fang)
- Subject: Re: Falcon '030 BUS: 16 or 32 bit?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.011541.22871@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 01:15:41 GMT
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- Joern Moe (jornmoe@fredrik.atari.no) wrote:
- [quotation deleted]
- : Are you trying to convince yorself not to buy a Falcon or what?
- : A1200 more expandable than the falcon?
-
- It has two slots for hardware - PCMCIA and the trapdoor slot.
-
- : Oh, well it has to be (though i doubt that it realy is), because it does NOT
- : have SCSI II, 16 mips DSP, 8 channels of 16Bit/50Khz sound and bultin 16 bit
- : stereo AD/DA, and is further crippled by a upper limit of only 2MB of
- : videoram!
-
- Well, thats two more megs of video ram than the Falcon, and the bus is twice
- as wide as the "crippled" falcon.
- :
- : The 'new' Amiga 1200 is O N L Y a souped up A600, whilst the Falcon 030
- : is a totaly new concept in homecomputing!!!
-
- New concept in what respect? The biggest piece of Vapour? If you call
- a 24bit palette, 32bit processor, 32bit bus, 2x clock speed, greater
- bandwidth for blitter operations souping up, then the Falcon could easily
- be called a souped a Atari 520 ST.
-
- : I like development of new abilities better than just speeding up old and
- : well known abilities, howewer when both are combined, as in Falcon, i realy
- : get enthusiastic!!
- :
- I do to. The only evolutionary things I see on the falcon is the dsp. This
- coupled with the sound chips and processors will allows for some really good
- music and effects generation.
-
- : _______________________________________________________
- : / Joern F. Moe / All above is my own personal opinion! \
-
- From someone who seems to speaking with inside information and works at
- Atari, you seem very rude or ignorant. This type of marketing reminds me
- of the Amiga 1000 vs Atari 520 arguments. Atari tried to sell itself by
- making all sorts of extravagant claims or hide that their machine does even
- more poorly without this feature. Like the blitter steals processor speed,
- (wheras the processor has to do all the work on the ST), interlace flicker (in
- screen modes that the ST didn't have), we don't need a pre-emptive multitasking
- operating system (something you still don't have)... etc...
-
- If you compare the posts from staff at Commodore to Atari, we see that the
- Commodore people are much more diplomatic...
-
- Regards,
-
- Jim Fang
-
-