peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) (07/27/87)
Is anyone else upset at Tramiel submerging the best 6502-based micro on the market under a so-so 68000-based machine? It's nice to have all that extra memory, sure, but not if it makes the machine more expensive than the (ick) C=64? Is there any real advantage to the extra RAM in the 130 over the 800XL? -- -- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!seismo!soma!uhnix1!sugar!peter (I said, NO PHOTOS!)
daryl@ihlpe.ATT.COM (Daryl Monge) (08/03/87)
In article <436@sugar.UUCP>, peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: > Is anyone else upset at Tramiel submerging the best 6502-based micro ... There seems to be (based on the 16 bit traffic) plenty of reasons to be less than satisfied with some aspects of ATARI, but the cost of the 65XE compared to the C64 and the 130XE compared to the C128 is not one of them. When my old 800 began to bite the dust (~$900) I definitely went for the extra memory in the 130XE (~$125!). Ramdisks are very nice on the ATARI. You can use the extra memory for program/data space, but my guess would be that most use of the memory is for ramdisk. Daryl Monge UUCP: ...!ihnp4!ihcae!daryl AT&T CIS: 72717,65 Bell Labs, Naperville, Ill AT&T 312-979-3603