Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!sugar!peter
From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AMIX?
Message-ID: <1904@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 29 Apr 88 23:04:47 GMT
References: <466@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> <863@gethen.UUCP> <391@brambo.UUCP> <9087@e.ms.uky.edu>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
Lines: 30
Keywords: Amiga AMIX Unix
Summary: That's a software problem.

In article ... david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) writes:
> Regardless of how much memory we spec now, people will want more
> in the future.

I didn't say "let's only have a meg", I said "let's not require people to
spend more than the price of a Yugo for a personal computer", which translates
to "we have to be able to get along with a meg" (yow. Boy was I happy when the
school upgraded to 48K on the computer club's Apple II).

> Egads.  I suppose I could live with only 2 80x24 windows, but I've really
> been spoiled by *really*large* screens.  As with memory, disk space, processor
> speed and every thing else, I want as much as the market will bear.

The market won't bear super expensive monitors. Once again, let's not spend
more than the price of a small car on a personal computer.

> YES!  How else are you supposed to have, with a home machine, multiple
> things going on over your modem at a time?

That's a software problem. I'm talking about "why would you need ethernet
in the home"?

<-- Windowing... The Amiga has windowing. The Mac has windowing (echoes of
<-- Jonathan Livingston Seagull: "Just flying? A mosquito can do that much!").

Yow. I've been promoted to someone's .signature.
-- 
-- Peter da Silva      `-_-'      ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter
-- "Have you hugged your U wolf today?" ...!bellcore!tness1!sugar!peter
-- Disclaimer: These aren't mere opinions, these are *values*.