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From: siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Low cost Mac's ?
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Date: 17 Aug 90 23:27:05 GMT
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In article <1990Aug17.223202.3256@portia.Stanford.EDU> aaron@jessica.stanford.edu (Aaron Wallace) writes:
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>This was true about 4-5 years ago, but nowadays IBM's R+D tends to trail
>others.  Witness that there are a slew of 33 MHz 386 and 25 and 33 MHz
>486s out there, yet IBM makes no such animal.  Okay, a fast 386 can be

	Uh, no, they only just recently came out with a RISC machine which
blows the pants off most every iAPX86 machine... :-) And it fits on the
desktop, too...

R.
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