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From: hamilton@uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: New CoCo-III's Market Niche (lo
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Date: Sat, 9-Aug-86 19:50:00 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug  9 19:50:00 1986
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Nf-From: uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU!hamilton    Aug  9 18:50:00 1986


>> > Tandy has straddled the 68K home market by landing salvos on both sides of it.
>> That's silly.  The 68000 machines, any 68000 machine, is much more powerful
>> than currently existing MS-DOS machines.  The 6809 is in many ways a more
>> advanced processor than the 8088, and at your 1.7MHz or whatever the CoCo-III
>> is running faster memory cycles than a standard or XT PClone.  If Motorola
>> had the forsight to add on-chip banking like in the 8088, the 6809 would
>> have had a good chance of catching on as THE 8/16 bit chip.
>
>Of course we know the 68K machines are better in every way than the MSDOS
>biz boxes.  It's just that the 3-piece suit types who define the "real
>world" don't see it that way.  Fortunately biz types are finding how useful
>color graphics and mouse pointing can be.

    i don't know that much about the 3-piece suits, but the 2-piece
green and blue suits i come into contact with often understand the
advantages of the 68K.  many of them even appreciate unix.

	wayne hamilton
	U of Il and US Army Corps of Engineers CERL
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