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From: rej@cornell.UUCP (Ralph Johnson)
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Subject: Re: ATT and the 3B
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Date: Fri, 25-May-84 16:05:48 EDT
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I don't understand why people seem to think that the 3B is such
a wonderful machine.  "Nice", OK, but why "wonderful"?  I have
seen a number of 68000 based machines that are just as powerful
and are cheaper.  I assume that AT&T can provide better service
(eventually) and that they could provide better versions of Unix
(if they wanted to) but the 3B really seems a lot like many other
systems that have been available for a while.

Since a 10MZ 68000 is about 60% of a 11/780, a 16MZ is 96%!  :-)
(Please, no flames if you didn't get the joke.)