From: griff@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (yo'man)
Subject: Re: TECH: Amiga VR?
Date: 5 Jan 93 20:37:07 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX



with all this discussion of amiga vs. ibm I just thought i'd spread the word
about the new atari falcon that's out (in Europe, US soon).  It's based on a 
16Mhz 68030 which admittedly is not high performance; but the clincher
is it has built in 2 channel 16 bit A/D and D/A hardware, complete w/ 
Motorola DSP56k.  The audio hardware will do your 3d audio system pretty nicely 
(I've built one on a 56k w/  2/3 the clock speed already), and since it has
coprocessor similar to the amiga, you could possibly squeeze quite a few
polygons per second.  

SRP:  $799.  We're not talking '486 power, but not bad price/perf ratio. 

If anyone wants more info on this system just send me a note.  Basically though
it seems to be a poor man's NeXT.


Andrew Wheeler
Applied Research Laboratories
University of Texas at Austin