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From: gl8f@astsun7.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
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Subject: Re: The TT is finally there!
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Date: 13 Sep 90 20:15:25 GMT
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In article <1990Sep13.185245.15406@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz) writes:

> What market niche are they trying to enter?
>I don't get it.  The machine's architecture is too closed to be of
>any use as a workstation.  The price is too high for a home computer.

etc. etc.

Look, people have given plausible explainations for these things. It
was argued, and no conclusion was arrived at. Why do you want to raise
these questions again? No new answers will come out.

Let's not discuss this here.

[ PS - if you don't recall the comments: (1) most workstations have as
  low of an expansion capability of the TT, for example the Sun SLC,
  which Chris himself compared to the TT. (2) A high price now doesn't
  mean a high price in the future, and some "power" home users are
  willing to cough up that kind of money to buy a new CPU for their
  existing peripherals. Well the TT succeed? Only the future will
  tell. Speculating now won't get you anywhere. ]
 
>Anyway, nuff said.

PLEASE!

>>--
>>"Perhaps I'm commenting a bit cynically, but I think I'm qualified to."
>>                                              - Dan Bernstein
>
>Nothing wrong with a dose of cynicism.  It's actually quite 
>useful in retaining one's sanity in a situation such as we now 
>have with ATC.

Yeah, but the point of this quote is to show how Mr. Bernstein
comments about everything under the sun, because he considers himself
an expert on everything. Now we have you telling us whether or not the
TT will succeed in the marketplace. Give it a rest, Chris.

If you want to reply to my PS, please do it in email. I am not saying
I have *any* of the answers, just that arguing is useless.

--
"Perhaps I'm commenting a bit cynically, but I think I'm qualified to."
                                              - Dan Bernstein