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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Sun's Competitive Strategy (Was: Re: P1754
Message-ID: <2982@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 4 Dec 90 02:16:40 GMT
References: <1990Nov16.225515.494@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Nov25.194404.3376@dircon.uucp> <1635@unix386.Convergent.COM> <1990Dec2.014554.3491@Neon.Stanford.EDU> <2760@cirrusl.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
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In article <2760@cirrusl.UUCP> dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) writes:

| Nope.  "Classic" here means "obsolete".  In this day and age of 28-MIPS
| machines, what Apple does with an 8 MHz 68000 is utterly irrelevant.

  Except in technical, social, or ecconomic terms. All the dcomputing
the average home user ever needs to do could be done in CP/M, with a Z80
and 64k. People did (and do) run 100 employee businesses on them.

  All the extra power, memory, and disk space goes to provide the user
interface.

  I'm only slightly kidding.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
    VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use unix.


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