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From: phil@amd70.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Buying your first home computer - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 21-Nov-83 03:27:55 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 21 03:27:55 1983
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I would like to add that I too dislike IBM and 8086s. After all, I
use Unix all the time at work and 8086s don't run Unix all that well.

But, the IBM-PC market is too big for vendors to ignore and you can
only take advantage of that (the fact that more stuff comes out for
IBM-PCs than any other micro and that this is also a self-fulfilling
prophesy) if you have an IBM-PC.

If you buy something cheaper like the TI you'll probably be turned off
by it or have to start over when you want to expand or run that neat
software that everyone else has or is writing.

To paraphrase Khrushchev, IBM will bury you (other micros).

I don't know if this is good, but it is.
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Phil Ngai (408) 988-7777 {ucbvax|decwrl|ihnp4|allegra}!amd70!phil