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From: mitsu@well.UUCP (Mitsuharu Hadeishi)
Newsgroups: net.micro.6809,net.micro,net.micro.atari16,net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: New CoCo-III's Market Niche
Message-ID: <1597@well.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 7-Aug-86 12:51:53 EDT
Article-I.D.: well.1597
Posted: Thu Aug  7 12:51:53 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 9-Aug-86 09:08:52 EDT
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Keywords: MS-DOS, toy
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Summary: MS-DOS is a toy


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In article <1040@ihwpt.UUCP> Mike Knudsen writes:
> the 68K machines (which MS-DOS users would call "toys" too).
68K machines are toys? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Hmm.  I seem to be running three concurrent tasks in separate windows
here; must be I'm using an MS-DOS computer (only "real" computers
can do that, right?)  Funny . . . and I thought I was using a toy.
			-Mitsu (mitsu@well.UUCP)
P.S.  To those who are still blinded by the Big Three ('I', 'B', and
'M' . . .), I'd like to remark that when R.J. Mical began development
of the Sidecar MS-DOS coprocessor for the Amiga, he thought it would
take him 2-3 months to learn the IBM computer.  He was pleasantly
surprised to find it took the span of 1 plane flight to learn all the
basic information he needed to know from a couple books he bought on the
subject.  He remarked later: "I didn't know what I was expecting . . .
something really amazing, stupendous; what I found was the IBM PC is
just a better Apple II."  Not that the II is a bad computer; but the
68000 dwarfs any 808X series microprocessor (and yes, is just a little
better designed than even the 80286).  There is nothing amazing about
this; a 68000 can compute rings around an 8088 (and a 68020 can compute
rings around a VAX.)