ESCOM:Good or bad news?
02-May-95 08:17:49
Sb: #195413-ESCOM:Good or bad news?
Fm: Phillip Wooller 100024,2227
To: Tony Talarico 73065,364
The Falcon was always called the Falcon/030 (in the UK anyway). This actually
lost them alot of sales as everyone was waiting for a Falcon/040 (which never
came). The Falcon isn't very good though as it only has one memory bus so if
you are running a high res deep screen then the processor gets slow on all
accesses, not just screen accesses. The other thing I heard was that it only
had 16bit access to memory (a bit like putting an 030 into an a500 or a2000).
And at 16mhz it wasn't much faster than an a1200, although it had a high
density drive, scsi-ii and DSP which I would like to see in a base Amiga.
Fortunately for you that you didn't buy the ST 🙂
Phill