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From: garvin@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (Michael A. Garvin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Request for testers for Color X11 for Amiga
Message-ID: <3230@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Date: 21 Jun 89 02:08:06 GMT
References: <19700@cup.portal.com> <3012@csd4.milw.wisc.edu>
Reply-To: garvin@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (Michael A. Garvin)
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In article <3012@csd4.milw.wisc.edu> dave@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (David A Rasmussen) writes:
>From article <19700@cup.portal.com>, by stephan@cup.portal.com (Stephen Derek Schaem):
>> 
>>  Dana, read my other reply and you will now why I think that way.
>> I have a price of 8,000$ for a Unix workstation based on a RISC (mips), 
>Flame on:
>If you aren't interested in testing X for the amiga, why the hell are you
>bitching about prices under that subject?
>Flame off:
>
>--
>Dave Rasmussen, UW Milwaukee Computing Services Division. Uucp: uwmcsd4!dave,

     <Sigh> This is getting beaten to death... I don't blame Dale (I used
your first name :-) for posting in a while...
     OK, about this here X thingy.  The point isn't really about price
(although it is, really, in a way).  It's about this: why would people add
X to their Mac or their PC?  Huh?  No, we're not talking RISC, we're not
talking 300 meg of hard disk, no UN*X (note, I'm not counting AIX), no
huge multiple 1024x1024 24 bitplane windows... and yet, people will do it.
     I want to be able to, too.  I've got this 2000 here, why can't I do
this cheaply and not have to get an X terminal (net hog) or a work$tation.
Add an EtherNet card (with TCP/IP, NFS, telnet, ftp, rlogin, and more), a
3-button optical mouse, and software.  Quick, easy, and relatively
inexpensive.  And THAT'S what the Amiga, Mac, and IBM people are looking at.
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It may not be a Sun 4/80 or a PVAX, but it works.  It gets the job done.
Plus, I get an Amiga.
     'Nuff said.  Please.  Now let's get on with a technical discussion
of X on the Amiga, or something else.

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garvin@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu    Michael Garvin    NCSU Computing Center
Disclaimer: these are my opinions; NCSU & CC may feel otherwise.
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