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- From: hybrid@star.slinknet.com (Chris Hall)
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- Subject: Re: Msg from Carl Sassenrath (VISCorp)
- Date: 15 Apr 1996 06:04:01 GMT
- Organization: Starlink Information Systems
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- Byron Montgomerie (bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca) wrote:
-
- : Perhaps it makes business sense for VIScorp but I for one am not interested
- : in a set top box and won't be for some years until the industry gets their
- : act together. If the whole world went the set top box way I still would
- : want a computer. From what I understand a set top box is just a fancy
- : terminal to be connected to a mainframe in any case and I don't approve of
- : that kind of setup.
-
- A set top box is a computer. The term "Set top box" is getting a bad wrap
- that it doesn't deserve. What's the difference between a 1200 connected
- to a TV and a set top box Amiga? The shape of the case and location.
- Selling set top boxes could make VIScorp enough money to develope more
- powerful Amigas.
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- Chris Hall
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