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From: chenr@tilt.FUN (Ray Chen)
Newsgroups: net.college,net.cse
Subject: Re: Why force the AT&T at UVM?
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Date: Sat, 4-May-85 18:03:07 EDT
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Posted: Sat May  4 18:03:07 1985
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Summary: 

I'm a CS major.  At UVM, this would put into the category of
students required to buy an AT&T 6300.

Now, I'm sorry, but an AT&T 6300 would be pretty much useless to me as
a personal computer.  Given the type of projects I work on (screen
editors, artificial intelligence, compilers, etc.) the 6300 simply
doesn't have either the cycles, the disk, or the memory that I need.
It would make a great word-processor and a nice terminal emulator --
and that's about it.  For most of the mathematical calculations I have
to do, I prefer my HP 34C.  I have quite a few friends here (like my
graphics-oriented friend who thrashes a Vax to death) who are in the
same position.  We all regard a well-tuned SUN-class machine as a nice
personal computer.

I would deeply resent any college that would make me blatantly waste
$2000 no matter how well off I was financially.

	Ray Chen