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From: barry@speaker.metaphor.com (Barry Friedman)
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Subject: Re: What the ST should be (Kurt Olson)
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Date: 3 Mar 91 15:30:49 GMT
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In article <1991Mar3.001625.22154@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> carter@cat27.cs.wisc.edu (Gregory Carter) writes:
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>I think 2 megs is a good start on any base model.
>
>As for the operating system, Wow you really blew it there.  Who wants
>MiNT or TOS  when UNIX/X-Windows is available.

UNIX/X with 68010 and only 2 megs would be an incredible dog. 68030 with
4-8 megs would run UNIX/X tolerably. Maybe Mach would be a better choice,
I think it is on its way to being PD. Throw NextStep on top of that, and it
would be really cool.

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