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From: rjd@tiger.UUCP
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Subject: Re: GNU and Personal Computers with VM.
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Date: Tue, 15-Sep-87 22:10:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 15 22:10:00 1987
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>    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.

  Well, I have a possible reason, but it is exactly what you said; a toy.  I,
personally, do not own a home computer because I have been loaned a terminal
with modem by my employer (AT&T) which enables them to get a great deal of work
out of me that I do not bother to charge them for, being the dedicated person
that I am (I really am more than half serious about this).
   But, the other day, I saw an Amiga doing some graphics.  Now, THAT is
something I would ALMOST go out and pay good money for: because I have always
loved to work in graphics, and, sorry, 1200 baud on a DMD is not quite the
same....  Once I get some extra money, I might start seriously start looking
for a good graphics system with a lot of game packages.
   You are right, the work can be done on the work computers!!!  (But the fun
stuff can be had on the toys...  And I am not saying that an Amiga is a toy,
as I have no idea, it is just what I would be using it as if I had one.)

Randy