Re: Hardware and 8MHz 68000 machines

[Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.north.de>]

Annius Groenink writes:

> It would be a nice way to finally get the Atari crowd to go for the 030
> and higher ranges if we would say:  forget the 68000.  I really don't
> understand that even Atari themselves don't see this point.  I mean
> 1) developing MiNT and MultiTOS is plainly much harder if one keeps trying
> to keep everything 000 compatible and 2) it is simply going to cost Atari
> money because people will stick to their STs.  An average PC user upgrades
> his/her whole system at least three times as often as the average Atari
> user.  That's fine, but it shouldn't get out of hand.  The 68000 is history.
> Developing a new system supporting history is foolish.

 i guess the 68000 ataris will simply stay the majority until there
is a >68030 (40?) atari thats `power without the price' again...
and 16MHz 68030 is just too little improvement. :(

 my $.02
	Juergen
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