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From: knudsen@ihwpt.UUCP (mike knudsen)
Newsgroups: net.micro.6809,net.micro,net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: New CoCo-III's Market Niche (long)
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Date: Fri, 8-Aug-86 16:54:15 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...
> > ... OS-9 68K is released, which will certainly blow away 6809 OS-9.

> 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

I agree 100% -- the OS9/68K support for the ST is way overpriced,
especially compared to Tandy's pricing on 6809 versions.
The new Coco 3 stuff is a large price *reduction* -- 
OS9 (Level II) plus BASIC09 for $80, compared to $170 for both
before.  Yes, you must pay extra for the SW development tools now,
tho I think for most buyers it makes more sense to bundle in
BASIC09 than Assembler, even tho I have reached the conclusion
that BASIC09 sucks clamshells as a serious programming language
(I use C and assembler now).	--mike k
PS: -- I'm keeping this out of net.micro.amiga -- I got mail
that they aren't interested in hearing about this.
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