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From: rb@cci632.UUCP (Rex Ballard)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: ST, Verrrrry Close (Re: PCs, ATs, DOS, Intel chips etc./ Reasons for unhappiness?
Message-ID: <198@cci632.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Jul-86 12:00:02 EDT
Article-I.D.: cci632.198
Posted: Tue Jul  8 12:00:02 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 11-Jul-86 04:46:06 EDT
References: <563@imsvax.UUCP> <3921@sun.uucp> <567@looking.UUCP> <472@ccird1.UUCP> <580@looking.UUCP> <6851@utzoo.UUCP>
Reply-To: rb@ccird1.UUCP (Rex Ballard)
Organization: CCI, Rochester Development, Rochester, NY
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Summary: How close did it come?

In article <6851@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>> >... the first company to come out with 1280x800 (mono) graphics,
>> >1 meg memory, 1 MIPS, Virtual memory, and non-proprietary
>> >multi-tasking in a complete system for under $1000 will shake the
>> >market so badly, that the rest will have to follow.
>> 
>> The Commodore 900 had all this for about $3K 2 years ago.  They cancelled.
>
>More significantly, the Atari ST comes close now, and is selling pretty
>well.  The screen is too small, there is no virtual memory, and none of
>the software multi-tasks, but it's close and later ones will probably
>be closer.
>-- 
Actually the ST comes even closer.  Multi-tasking is available through
RTX or OS-9.  It has, or can be expanded to one meg, or even more (up to
4 meg on-board).

Have you noticed how fast the prices have been dropping on the '86
machines :-)?

This is only the BEGINNING folks.