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From: rminnich@udel.EDU (Ron Minnich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore 68020 and general market share question
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Date: Wed, 11-Nov-87 12:52:04 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 11 12:52:04 1987
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In article <2720@cbmvax.UUCP> welland@cbmvax.UUCP (Bob Welland) writes:
>
>I was dissapointed to see that no one who was at the  COMDEX
>show reported on the Commodore 68020 board for the A2000. It
>was shown in the booth by Dave Haynie (he and  I  where  the
>designers). It has some nice features !
>
   This brings up a question. How much would it cost to build
a 68020 based 2000+nice monitor that would equal or exceed 
a MAC II? In other words, can you get a MAC II scale machine 
out of a 2000 and how much would it run you? 
   Which brings another question. I have been thinking for a while
that the 500 would be an ideal entry-level X windows platform. For 
$700 or so you could build a reasonable X-windows device. These would 
probably sell (esp. to universities) like hotcakes. Now that i have 
Lattice 4.0 I am going to have a wing at the simple 'mfb' X device- after
i get net: working (ha ha) that is!
ron

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ron (rminnich@udel.edu)