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From: starpath@athena.mit.edu (David E Hollingsworth)
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Subject: Re: My next personal computer will be a PC
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Date: 4 May 90 23:50:40 GMT
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alfter@MRCNEXT.CSO.UIUC.EDU (Scott Alfter) writes:
> You also still have the problem of the
>brain-dead 80x86 processor architecture to deal with.  Why anybody would get
>a machine based on such a piece of junk when 68030-based (and
65816-based :-) )
>machines are available that are ten times better is beyond me.

*SIGH*

That's like saying we should all buy Connection Machines because the
processor architecture is far better than that of 680x0 based machines. 
It is NOT enough to simply say that the processor makes the machine. 
Who cares if the 68030-based machines ARE "ten times better,"
(depending, of course on what "better" means) if it is not worth the
money to buy such a machine?  (Exactly which machine is ten times better
which machine?)

  --D. Hollingsworth
  starpath@athena.mit.edu