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From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Eighth Edition and job control (was Re: UNIX Futures)
Message-ID: <1586@ism780c.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 11-Apr-86 22:18:57 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 11 22:18:57 1986
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In article <71@utecfc.UUCP> dennis@utecfc.UUCP (Dennis Ferguson) writes:
>
>I am typing this on a rather dumb 24x80 terminal.  Approximate
>value is $400.  I have showed your message to just about everyone
>arund here with funds but no one has volunteered to provide me
>with the $9000 or so I would need to buy a 5620.  Some people have
>all the luck.
>

There is no reason one can not make 5620 technology available at a
very low cost.  Look at some of the computers that are now available
with bitmapped displays: Macintosh ( 512k goes for around $1300 ),
Atari 520ST ( $800 ), and Amiga ( ~$1200? ).

There is no reason one can not turn any of these into a reasonable
5620 emulator.  The large screen of the 5620 is nice, but I think one
could live with the smaller screens of the above computers.

Anyone care to predict how long the dumb terminal will last?  Unless
it is real cheap ( i.e., almost free ), I can't see any reason to get
one when for maybe twice as much I can get a computer and run a terminal
emulator.
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Tim Smith       sdcrdcf!ism780c!tim || ima!ism780!tim || ihnp4!cithep!tim