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From: marc@stingray..austin.ibm.com (Marc J. Stephenson/140000;1C-22)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Risc System/6000 (120MB disk feasibility)
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Date: 22 Feb 90 15:52:06 GMT
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One thing that people might wish to consider is that the UNIX market is no
longer limited to scientific/engineering; it is growing quite a bit in the
commercial sector.  Whereas a minimal system might not work so well for someone
developing an application, it might work just great for someone who is running
the application.  Why should they have to pay for a lot of disk and memory if
all that they are doing is running terminals at a video checkout counter?
Whether a customer needs more performance and disk space will largely be
controlled by what they are going to use the systems for.

Marc Stephenson (marc@stingray.austin.ibm.com)
Location: F57/992, (79)3-3796, ZIP 2401, 1C-22/992, Austin, Texas
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