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From: cbenda@unccvax.uncc.edu (carl m benda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Microsoft and Friends
Summary: mainstream..
Message-ID: <2947@unccvax.uncc.edu>
Date: 18 Nov 90 16:24:09 GMT
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Organization: University of NC at Charlotte
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If you want mainstream... let's get going! there is NO reason why we
can't have workstations (i.e. 8 meg of memory, megapel monochrome display,
and 200 meg hard disk, and Unix) priced at under 1000 dollars.  If you
want mainstream, (there are over 10 million PC's that can run DOS)  you
have to get the numbers.  If you want numbers, you have to reduce the cost. 
This is how the Japanese got 30% of the American Car market, and it CAN be
how UNIX gets the whole DESKTOP computer market.

Gates Has got a numbers edge, but just let him try to get into the NON-Intel
market with his software and operating systems, and he will learn the true
meaning of the word "OPEN".  If he thinks he can get his proprietary stuff
into the true workstation world, he's got another thing comming.  Even big
IBM new that it could not put a NON "OPEN" operating system onto its high-est
end workstation RS/6000.

Just some views.

/Carl