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Subject: Re: XENIX on Trs-80 16B
Message-ID: <14857@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21-Dec-83 14:06:35 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 21 14:06:35 1983
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From:  Darth Wombat <ab3%pucc-j@BRL-VGR.ARPA>


	A couple of hours spent in a radio shack computer store in Chicago
a while back revealed the following:

	1. It's very s---l---o---w.  I wonder what speed that processor
is chugging alog at? (Salesperson did not know.)

	2. It's not terribly robust; a C program consisting basically of
"while (1) fork();" blew it away.  So did one that tried to open more
than the maximum number of files.  Remember the "at" bug? It's there; so
are a lot of the other common bugs.

	3. The &%$ keyboard is missing the symbols for either [] or {}; can't
remember which offhand; and | becomes backslash.  I don't recall all the 
details, but it'd probably take a while to learn how to type on this thing.
Additionally, the keyboard feels like a damp sponge.

	4. I think I'll wait for Bell's machine.

Rich Kulawiec / Purdue 
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