Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!adm!rbj@icst-cmr.arpa From: rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: GNU and Personal Computers with VM. Message-ID: <9279@brl-adm.ARPA> Date: Mon, 14-Sep-87 13:52:19 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-adm.9279 Posted: Mon Sep 14 13:52:19 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 15-Sep-87 06:24:14 EDT Sender: news@brl-adm.ARPA Lines: 24 The !@#$%&* bank won't approve me for a loan for a "fire sale" 3B1, and you want me to buy a 386 box for $5000 or so???! (No, I _don't_ have an AT, so an Intel 386 motherboard isn't an option.) Son, not everyone can afford to buy a GoshWhizBang 9000. So we can't run GNU. That's the long and the short of it, and political/religious discussions won't have any effect on it. (sigh) What I have never understood is why people spend real money on toy computers when they can play on real ones at work. Buy a terminal and a modem for home use. Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc {{harvard,mit-eddie}!necntc,well!hoptoad,sun!mandrill!hal}!ncoast!allbery ARPA: necntc!ncoast!allbery@harvard.harvard.edu Fido: 157/502 MCI: BALLBERY <> ** Site "cwruecmp" has changed its name to "mandrill". Please re-address ** *** all mail to ncoast to pass through "mandrill" instead of "cwruecmp". *** (Root Boy) Jim Cottrell National Bureau of Standards Flamer's Hotline: (301) 975-5688 I am covered with pure vegetable oil and I am writing a best seller!