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From: berger@clio.sts.uiuc.edu (Mike Berger)
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Subject: Re: Hardware Idiots ?
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Date: 6 Jun 91 19:03:45 GMT
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breemen@rulcvx.LeidenUniv.nl (E. van Breemen) writes:
>what you get. On the other hand I can buy an 486 machine with everything
>I want for less than $3500. But that means: no multitasking and start all
>over again (software etc). Money isn't the real issue here: I spent more 
*----
You have an "orphan" machine now (meaning it's a niche market, not mainstream
like PC or Mac).  You do not have to live without multitasking.  You can
run several Unix variants, or even (gasp) OS/2.  Of course, you give up the
mainstream MS-DOS option, but that doesn't seem to bother you now.
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	Mike Berger
	Department of Statistics, University of Illinois
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