Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Path: utzoo!utstat!philip
From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: New Apple // Generation
Message-ID: <1990Nov24.053857.24042@utstat.uucp>
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 90 05:38:57 GMT
References: <9011240342.AA29693@apple.com>
Organization: Statistics, U. of Toronto

In article <9011240342.AA29693@apple.com> $CSD211@LSUVM.BITNET (Mark Orr) writes:
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>Well, it's an idea anyway...I think there's a market for a low cost UNIX
>machine.

There already is a very low cost Unix computer available. It is based on
the 386. Many companies make them.>

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>I beseech you to look at the October 1987 issue of BYTE. The article on
>the Acorn Archimedes A310 is not to be missed...it contains many of the same
>ideas as the Apple //f. (but this machine actually exists)

The Achimedes line of computers is indeed most attractive. I've used their
410 and it is one of the nicest computers you will find. The problem here
is finding software for it, as we have to go through Olivetti or directly
to Britain. In fact the Archimedes is a very natural successor to the GS
and I would not hesitate in recommending it were it not for the software
issue.

Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto->philip@utstat.toronto.edu
[my opinions]