From: kosmatoo@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Kosmatos Odisseas)
Subject: Re: Falcon030 -- Truth not Fiction
Summary: Fine. Here's truth.
Organization: Universite de Montreal
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 05:02:40 GMT

In article <1h5ppkINNp78@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> aa399@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Len Stys) writes:

>Ok, I'm going to ask a few questions and I only wish for people that
>know enough about the Falcon030 to answer them.

[millions of questions deleted]

>Are you going to buy a Falcon030?
>
>If so, WHY?
>
>If not, WHY?

You want an individual, personal answer, with an honest opinion?

Yes. I will buy one within the first week they are available, because I
suspect I will have a lot of fun with it. I believe that in general, I
like the kind of people who buy Atari's. Somehow, we have lots of fun. (really)

Everyone I know who buy's Amiga and Atari ends up having lots of fun
with their computers. I'm simply one who opted for Atari at first, a matter
of lower cost in the 1985 days. (I was 15 then, a young teenager.)

I'll be frank. For 5 out of 7 years I had my ST, I had lots of fun with it.
It cost more money than 'other' computers to upgrade (for example to
get a double sided drive, TOS in ROM, 1 Meg ram, etc.) but the people on
local BBS's that had ST's were always a lot of fun to chat with and it
was worth it. We enjoyed programming weird things, playing games, discovering
new software, etc.. Sure, things change, and In the last two years or so I
have sorta outgrown my ST, and besides there's not much action in the local
Atari community. So I've been saving up, ignoring home computers in general
and using the ones in school. But, I'd like to have a new computer at home
and the Falcon sounds like more fun than a PC or MAC would be. It is cheap too.

When I get the Falcon, I plan on spending a fair amount of time writing some
colorful 3D graphics routines (the Falcon may not be too powerful, but in
my case I don't care since for really processing-intensive graphics I will
end up using the Iris workstations we have access to for our 2D/3D graphics
course in university), I will learn about DSP programming, and try my hand
at voice recognition, neural-nets, etc. with the DSP. The Falcon will be
a useful learning tool for my general C.S. knowledge.

Also, I like to support the underdogs.

Moreover, I also think the Amiga is very interesting too. If the Falcon
didn't have a DSP, I would give the Amiga 1200 a much closer look.

Final clarification: Its not so much the fact that the Falcon is overall
much more powerful than the ST is that I will get one, but more that
reason also combined with a renewed interest by a given group of people
towards a computer. People (at the very least myself) will get more moti-
vation, I think, out of newer, and fancier hardware.

P.s. You realise that I speak as someone who uses their home computer
not only for real-life tasks such as Word Processing, etc. but also
as a tool to hone my programming, game playing, and .GIF picture
admiring skills. Have fun, Len. I hope you understand my point of view,
and feel free to reject, accept or ignore it.

>--
>Len (aa399@cleveland.Freenet.edu)
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