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From: isr@rodan.acs.syr.edu ( ISR group account)
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Subject: Re: Low-Cost Macintosh
Message-ID: <1981@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 5 Feb 90 15:44:33 GMT
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In article <6793@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> larryh@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Larry Hutchinson) writes:
>There exists a growing body of programs that will only run on 68020/'881
>level machines.  This is particularly true in science and engineering.
>
Yes, but how many people that are interested in $1000 machine are going
to be buying Spice or Mathematica at $800 a shot?? You coudn't possibly
imagine that "borrowing" of programs such as these could ever occur?

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