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From: riner@dsd.UUCP (john riner)
Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm
Subject: Re: Commodore's Lorraine
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Date: Wed, 27-Feb-85 18:04:48 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 27 18:04:48 1985
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	I still can't see why anyone would need 7 megs or more of RAM space.
We have a Workstation with 2 Megs and it can run 16 concurrent shells (each
has its own window on the screen) and you can't keep track of that many. We
have a PDP 11/44 with 2 Megs of memory which serves 64 users and 900 Megs
of disc drive so I can't see the need for 7 Megs in a multiuser system either.
	As for RAMdisk use. This is a possibility but I would think that is
a bit of overkill. 
	For all the talk of Commodore beating the price of Apples and IBMs
They can surely do that with an excellent competitive product which has
features useful to the majority of users and include the exotic in a machine
that is slightly more expensive.

-- 
	John Riner		UUCP: !fortune!dsd!riner
	AMPEX Corp
	Redwood City, CA.
		Nobody knows what I am talking about,
		so these must be my opinions and not theirs.