Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!CALVIN.CS.MCGILL.CA!depeche From: depeche@CALVIN.CS.MCGILL.CA (S. Alan Ezust) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: ragging on the st Message-ID: <8909271641.AA13951@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca> Date: 27 Sep 89 16:41:17 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 31 >From depeche Wed Sep 27 12:39:39 EDT 1989 In article <7810@microsoft.UUCP> w-darekm@microsoft.UUCP (Darek Mihocka) writes: >In article <11892@boulder.Colorado.EDU> solomon@boulder.Colorado.EDU (SOLOMON AMY BETH) writes: >>In articlecmm1@CUNIXA.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Christopher M Mauritz) writes: > >Gimme a break! The days of being able to claim Power Without the Price are over. >If you're gonna buy a 68030 machine, then what difference does it make if you >spend $3000 or $5000. It's safe to say you're not buying it for video games. >Most likely it will be used for development or in some business application. [stuff deleted] Yeah that is what they said about the Apple Lisa when it first came out... it had a whopping 256k of RAM and ran on an 8mhz 68000 ("that's not a micro- it's a mini! No home user could ever take advantage of all that power"). ah yes, the times, they are a-changing..... And by the way, Mac has just released the portable.... -- S. Alan Ezust aka "Depeche Modem" depeche@calvin.cs.mcgill.ca McGill University Computer Science Disclaimer: I claim everything! Montreal, Quebec, Canada (je pense que.... ) je me souviens "This kind of pornography is a matter of artistic creativity"