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From: elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Request for testers for Color X11 for Amiga
Message-ID: <8395@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 18 Jun 89 04:40:37 GMT
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in article <19503@cup.portal.com>, stephan@cup.portal.com (Stephen Derek Schaem) says:
>  All I'm saying is if people want a Graphics computer with X11 the amiga
> wont be the best idea.
>  To what Workstation are you comparing the amiga for price/power?

Dale isn't. Most of today's workstations have enough horsepower to run
several users, but it's no fun to do it without X -- might as well
just log in to the Vax down the hall, if you're just using a VT100. X
terminals have become a hot commodity. The Amiga makes a useful X
terminal, albeit somewhat resolution-limited, for around $3500 for the
whole thing (erring towards the high side hopefully). This compares
favorably with other X terminals out there, apparently, considering
that you also get a computer out of the bargain.

I'll agree that on a price/power basis, the Amiga is blown away by
current low-end workstations. But that wasn't the market Dale's aiming
for.

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