Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!peregrine!sceard!mrm From: mrm@sceard.Sceard.COM (M.R.Murphy) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: What's a personal computer (Re: Yet Another Killer Micro?) Message-ID: <4053@sceard.Sceard.COM> Date: 5 Mar 90 21:46:01 GMT References: <50437@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <1990Mar1.175823.10643@smsc.sony.com> <00933152.FA563760@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: >> Uhhh, it isn't a microcomputer unless I can buy three of them for under >> $10,000, and still have money to put gas in the car. > >That's a good way of putting it. I like to say a personal computer should >cost no more than the down-payment on that car. It's a microcomputer if you can carry it into another room. It's a minicomputer if you can push it into another room. It's a mainframe if you can't afford the room for it. -- Mike Murphy Sceard Systems, Inc. 544 South Pacific St. San Marcos, CA 92069 mrm@Sceard.COM {hp-sdd,nosc,ucsd,uunet}!sceard!mrm +1 619 471 0655