#ESCOM:Good or bad news?
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All of us here in North America are hoping that one of the following happends.
Either Escom produces an abundant amount of machines for the world wide
market… or… they licence the production of that technology to some North
American counter part. The latter is preffered. It would be kinda hard to
expect Escom to be able to not only keep up with demand but support the poduct
as well.
Keep us informed as to what happens.
Mike Winkler
Ring Video Systems, Inc.
Chicago
Hmmm… Can't say on that one. Depending on prices, ESCOM may have no
trouble at all keeping up with world wide demand. Look at Atari, they
find it quite easy to produce both those boxes sold every month. <g>
Good point; for all the hand wringing about the Amiga, where the heck is the
Atari ST, Falcon, et. al. these days even given a company in place?
The ST was dropped when the Falcon came out. The Falcon was semi-dropped when
the Jaguar came out. Atari's plans are to weld the Jaguar and the Falcon
together to get a fast home computer. They may have dropped those plans when
they saw what happened to the Amiga. Atari never had the same success with the
16bit computers as their 8bits and consoles (a bit like commodore). The Falcon
looks good, but has no real processor power as it only has a 68000. It gets
it's speed from the customer blitters etc (sound familiar?)
Phill
>> The ST was dropped when the Falcon came out. The Falcon was semi-dropped
when the Jaguar came out. Atari's plans are to weld the Jaguar and the Falcon
together to get a fast home computer. They may have dropped those plans when
they saw what happened to the Amiga. Atari never had the same success with the
16bit computers as their 8bits and consoles (a bit like commodore). The Falcon
looks good, but has no real processor power as it only has a 68000. It gets
it's speed from the customer blitters etc (sound familiar?) <<
Atari has dropped all production of computers to concentrate on selling the
Jag. However, they've licensed the Falcon technology to another company (I
don't remember who) that's going to sell a clone called the Falcon/030. I don't
know any specifics about this other than what I've seen in the Atari forum (I
bought the Amiga INSTEAD of an ST <g>)
Tony
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
It was a 68030 if iread the ad in Britsih mag ,a few years back
N.B.: Atari licensed the Falcon to a German (Hamburg) company who refined it so
it's now a) stable and b) able to do what it promised when it was introduced.
It's delivered with C-LAB Notator/Audio software pre-installed so it's "unpack,
plug and play" for MIDI/Audio musicians which it is solely aimed at.
// Christian "ELP" Busse
\X/ near Frankfurt, Germany
Do you know if they ever got MultiTOS working properly, at the show I saw it
you got the disk with it. The demonstrator said not to bother with it 🙂
Phill