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From: mo@seismo.UUCP (Mike O'Dell)
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Subject: AT&T 7300 continued...
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Date: Tue, 2-Apr-85 14:24:10 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  2 14:24:10 1985
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Due to the noise on my phone line and corresponding misdesign of postnews,
I inadvertently posted my 7300 review in an incomplete state.
Herewith is the rest of it.
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While I have some problems with the window system as a window user on a
Macintosh, there is probably a community which will find it attractive,
if the performance problems can be remedied.

As for the rest of the system, it seems pretty crisp running simple
commands.  I didn't try any cpu benchmarks, but if run as a single user
(or even two user) timesharing system without the office system,
it should work pretty well.  Again, with the paging activity I observed,
however, I wouldn't buy it with less than a megabyte, and again, the 20 meg
disk is too small to last too long.  It appears that someone has already
started marketing a 40-meg upgrade, which should make it a very hospitable
machine for 2 or even 3 people if they don't all do nroff's at once!

All in all, a fairly credible 68K machine, but not the end of the world
from a technical standpoint.  Upon reflection, my original statement
about being fairly unimpressed was correct - I wasn't particularly
favorably impress, nor was I particularly unfavorably impressed.
Of late, however, this last point is actually grounds to be favorably
impressed!  

Lastly, keep in mind this assessment was based on about an hour
of messing around without reading the manuals.  But since I learned
to use my Mac without reading anything (and knowing how to use Unix!),
I sort of expect Window Systems to be that simple.  If I were to use
it longer, I suspect I would get used to its quirks and come to like it.
But you better have a BIG desk if you want to make it a desktop!

	-Mike O'Dell