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Re: Reason for Falcon delay

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From: Herbert Martin Sauro
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 09:40
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In article <1992Nov12.085033.18063@ugle.unit.no> anderss@colargol (anderss) writes:
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> 
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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...)
>  
>  | |       |                         Anders Skar
>  |_|  _   _|  _   _  _      Trondheim College of Engineering
>  | | | | | | |_| |  |_            anderss@edb.tih.no
>  | | | | |_| |_  |   _|  68040 - You can't outrun the lightning

And can I ask how you come to know all this information? i.e. is it true?

Herb
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From: hrs@aber.ac.uk (Herbert Martin Sauro)
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Subject: Re: Reason for Falcon delay
Keywords: Falcon, delay, improved
Message-ID: <1992Nov16.094054.5173@aber.ac.uk>
Date: 16 Nov 92 09:40:54 GMT
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