From: jornmoe@fredrik.atari.no (Joern Moe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Organization: Atari Corp. Scand. AB (Norway)
Subject: Re: Is Falcon worth buying?
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Reply-To: jornmoe@fredrik.atari.no
X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.03 Rev. Apr 14 1992
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 19:03:04 MET

In <1992Sep11.183836.12212@zooid.guild.org>, Mark Kovarski writes:
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>There MIGHT be some problems for novice users to set-up a PC right but 
>usually its very easy. At least I can put 64 Meg on my motherboard how about
>the Falcon030? 14 Meg and that's it. What do you do if you run out? Wait until
>Atari releases a new computer that will be able to fit 15 Meg? I agree, it
>might be a little bit expensive but the advantages are enormous. BTW, 
>every body seems to talk about the Falcon. Can you tell me where I can buy i
>NOW? Ohhh, how much are those memory upgrade modules? I hear everything WILL
>BE available but where is it? Where are all the "ports"?

flames(ON);

Here we go again; comparing a keyboard computer, a toy (with some considerable 
professional potential though), a niche product to a industrial standard 
business machine, which because of low prices also are becoming a home computer
(but still is designed for business use).
Complaints on too litle memory capacity on the falcon is plain stupid. Yes it
is limited to 14MB, but taken the main target use for this machine, it's just
right. But it is quite possible to upgrade with fast-ram, and then the limit is
4GB! No, it's not as easy as upgrading a PC, one have to by some third-party 
do-it-yourself expansion kit, but nevertheless possible for those who want.
Machines with same target-niche these days have 1MB standard, and can be 
upgraded (with standard solutions) to typicaly 2 or 4 MB!
And remember, on PC's most software, and the most common OS, is limited to
the 'real huge' amount of 640K, leaving some 63Meg (the above mentioned figure,
but could be anny XX MB) as ramdisk or disk-cache. TOS have never been realy 
limited on maximum RAM other than that of physically limitations on the 
processor. And for those who run applications needing real huge amounts of 
memory, ther's the TT which for which there now is 64MB RAM-boards available, 
and soon to be produced (have seen a woorking prototype) 256MB RAM-Boards. 
No need for memory drivers, 'highloading', etc.
PC's and memory is NOT the right argument to use about the 'superiority' of 
PC's over ST/TT/Falcon030!! How many PC applications take advantage of more 
memory than 640K? Most (99.9%) ST applications take advantage of ALL installed
(free) memory! Eh, wel, not quite right on the TT, because you have to choose 
between FAST (4MB - 64MB or even more) or SYSTEM RAM (2MB - 10MB) on older 
applications.

flames(OFF);

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