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From: martin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Martin Hunt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A3000
Message-ID: <11393@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 6 May 90 23:05:53 GMT
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Reply-To: martin@cbmvax (Martin Hunt)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <8988@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt5784a@prism.gatech.EDU (Walter G. Reynolds (JJ)) writes:
>In article <11391@cbmvax.commodore.com> dale@cbmvax (Dale Luck - Amiga) writes:
>>In article <157@next.com> Ali_Ozer@NeXT.com (Ali Ozer) writes:
>>>
>>That is a job for the dealer to educate the consumer. Commodore (In my opinion)
>>should not be limiting the configurations of machines that it sells to
>>the customer. There are plenty of reasons to have a bare bones machine that
>>comes only with a floppy drive. There are many other options for mass storage
>>Dale Luck
>>GfxBase
>  Also, why have networking products when anything you buy is going to
>be a full-fledged machine in it's own right?  I always thought that
>aside from sharing data among several computers, networks were
>supposed to SAVE the business money by not forcing companies to
>buy a hard drive for EVERY machine...  I agree.  Commodore should offer
>a machine that does not come with a hard drive.. they appear to be
>contradicting themselves... why have a network if you already
>have a hard drive? (actually, I know the answer to this, so no flames 
>please.. you use a network so you can have an even bigger hard drive
>that everyone shares... but, in the case of a network, why have a hard
>drive at all? :) )
>
There are many reasons for having a network other than sharing a hard
drive.  For example, there is electronic mail, printer sharing, distributed 
processing, remote access to many machines, etc.  Besides, a 40 meg drive
is cheap compared to an ethernet card with NFS software.  Most people
would probably like a fast local drive to keep private files and a
very large server with public files.

However, I do agree that a network machine, with an ethernet card and
no disk drive would be a good idea.  It would make a great X terminal.


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Martin Hunt                     martin@cbmvax.commodore.com
Commodore-Amiga Engineering     {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!martin