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Article #22900Re: Falcon, Falcon who has got a Falcon
From: John Hutchinson
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:40
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:40
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In article 25748@westminster.ac.uk, lmvec@westminster.ac.uk (William Hargreaves) writes: >Why have Atari made the Falcon a 32-bit machine with only a 16-bit data bus. >Surely, this will mean it only runs half as fast as it should. > Oh, please... let's don't open THIS can of worms again! :) Don't sweat it, Will. It was an economic/marketing decision by Atari (perhaps not one of their better ones). The machine is still plenty fast and should only be of concern to those who base their lives around numbers. --- ___________________________ John "HUTCH" Hutchinson _________________________ _________________ Fair Dinkum Technologies Member - IAAD _______________ ________________ "No worries, mate... it's from Fair Dinkum!" _______________ ____________ email: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov GEnie: FAIR-DINKUM _____________
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!ames!agate!overload.lbl.gov!dog.ee.lbl.gov!hellgate.utah.edu!lanl!ilmen!hutch From: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov (John Hutchinson) Subject: Re: Falcon, Falcon who has got a Falcon Message-ID: <1993Jan21.164042.28237@newshost.lanl.gov> Sender: news@newshost.lanl.gov Reply-To: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory References: <1993Jan20.194026.25748@westminster.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:40:42 GMT Lines: 18