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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: "DOS machines" (Was: TT (Who has one?))
Keywords: long
Message-ID: <13470@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 27 Jul 90 04:47:21 GMT
References: <1990Jul19.135115.2032@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1990Jul19.160526.2215@arcsun.arc.ab.ca> <6764@vax1.acs.udel.EDU> <692@cvbnetPrime.COM>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <692@cvbnetPrime.COM> jshekhel@feds19.UUCP (Jerry Shekhel ) writes:

>That's the whole point I'm trying to make.  When you buy a PC, you're getting
>the industry standard.  That means you can tailor your PC to use ANY graphics
>standard, ANY disk interface standard, ANY peripheral interface standard,
>ANY network standard, etc., and at this point, it costs less to get a PC
>than a comparable Amiga or a TT.

Perhaps.  Perhaps not.  Just as a curiosity, this very night I challenged
comp.sys.amiga to defend this widely held view by finding a '386 PC that's
roughly equivalent to the A3000 for any price.  I'm certain that the PC I
specified, or something close to it, can be had.  I'm not certain it can
be had for less than an A3000.  Commodore doesn't make any EISA machines,
and I don't know much about any other PCs, so I'm really in the dark on this
one.  But anyone here who wants to take up the challenge, check out the
"Comparable Systems" thread in c.s.a.

Perhaps someone who knows the TT better could attempt a similar experiment
here....

>-- Jerry


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