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- From: wfblan@netcom.com
- Subject: Re: "We learned from C='s mistakes" ..
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- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 02:59:41 GMT
- Sender: wfblan@netcom16.netcom.com
-
- John Gregor (aq722@cleveland.Freenet.Edu) wrote:
-
- : In a previous article, bjp@flowbee.interaccess.com (J. Poag) says:
-
- : >service, has a 10-year-old CPU driving it, it will come in a
- : >nonstandard case and cost as much as a near top-of-the-line 133 Mhz Pentium
- : >tower with 35x as much speed, and 4x the memory.
-
- : I can't wait until they try to advertize this thing, and get laughed out of
- : North America. It should be good for some jokes by Leno or Letterman.
-
- : And you're even forgetting that in order to get it up to even close to
- : a modern PC graphics, will cost another $600. Jeez.
-
- : If they try to advertize this thing in the face of $1600 133 MHz
- : Pentiums with PCI gfx, it will develop into a national joke.
-
- : John
-
-
- I doubt that the system will sell for over $1000, all though I base this on
- logic, and I can't be too sure that is what AT is using. I am in full
- support of AT, but if the system is much more than $800, I may have to hold
- off, or pass on it.
-
- Rob Bamford
- (wfblan@netcom.com)
-