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From: tainter@ihlpg.UUCP (Tainter)
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Subject: Re: New CoCo-III's Market Niche (long)
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Date: Fri, 8-Aug-86 10:52:37 EDT
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> As for someone looking for power, the ST looks like a good deal.  It offers
> a reasonable amount of hardware power, easily comparable to a MAC.  The
> fact that it has an operating system far inferior to OS-9 will be overlooked
> by many, and will actually be a moot point as OS-9 68K is released, which
> will certainly blow away 6809 OS-9.
> 
> Dave Haynie    {caip,ihnp4,allegra,seismo}!cbmvax!daveh
Available? Yes. Expensive? YES!  For a $500 system $300 for an os(only) is
expensive.  Languages packaged as 3 for $600 is stiff also.  Although $200
a piece is not that bad you can't get them seperately!
TLM is being irrational.  If they priced it at 100 dollars with a language
they could sell 1 copy per ST sold. (which would be a better profit than
there sales to 15% of the ST owners.)
--j.a.tainter