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From: sdyer@bbnccv.UUCP (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.micro.att
Subject: Re: Problems with the 7300
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Date: Wed, 15-May-85 09:56:56 EDT
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> The article says that the biggest mistake made was the choice of
> the 68010 instead of the 32100 chip set, and that this mistake
> was made mostly due to proprietary marketing considerations
> which no longer existed when the machine was finally completed.

Huh?  Where's the "mistake" here?  A UNIX box is a UNIX box as long as it
performs to some minimal degree--to a large extent, you can forget just
what chip is sitting underneath (unless it's an 80x86, I guess!)

"Hey, this thing looks just like an Onyx,"
-- 
/Steve Dyer
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