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From: schultzd@kira.uucp (David Schultz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: The Atari PANTHER
Message-ID: <1990Nov19.212553.8341@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Date: 19 Nov 90 21:25:53 GMT
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In-Reply-To: dlk0ms9s@umiami.ir.miami.edu's message of 18 Nov 90 20:08:13 GMT

In article <1990Nov18.160813.7417@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
dlk0ms9s@umiami.ir.miami.edu (Mark Santora) writes: 
-> The Atari Panther 
-> 
-> Is supposed to be a suped up STE that has over 500 colors on screen at once 
-> and has multi level scrolling.  It was NOT announced at Comdex but might be 
-> at the CES next year.  It will run at 16 megahertz, supposedly.  And it will 
-> be selling aorund $200, less than the nintendo sfx.

You've gotta be kidding!  

a) A "suped up" STe would have a lot more than 500 colors.  (In excess
of 4096!)

b) It would cost a heck of a lot more than $200.  (STe is about $600?)
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