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Falcon Sighting (Developer Unit) in NH

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From: Brian Grier
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:07
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I recently received a couple phone calls from members of the 
ST group I used to belong to in New Hampshire. The Falcon had
been demonstrated at the monthly meeting and needless to say
every I spoke with was extremely impressed.

Frank Palowski, creator of OutBurST, demonstrated his FALCON 
030 to the Nashua Area ST Users Society, NASTUS. Frank 
demonstrated the bundled software and a few of ST programs.
The two people I spoke with were amazed at the performance.
One of the people I spoke with owns a TT with 4meg of ST ram
and said he felt the Falcon was the equivalent of his TT, running
PageStream in 640x480 with 16 colours. Franks system has 14mb/65megHd.

Frank did not demonstrate Multi-Tos, no reason given.

From what I know of 68030 implementations and what I've read 
here, and from Atari on the Falcon, the performance reports
are about what I expected.

Another good sign is that developers like Frank have Falcons. There
have been lots of complaints, here and on GEnie, about developers not
being able to get Falcons.

Brian, WS1S (ST/TT User)
Bell Northern Research
Research Triangle Park, NC
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