Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!bloom-beacon!mcgill-vision!quiche!depeche From: depeche@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca (Sam Alan EZUST) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: TT versus Mac IIcx Message-ID: <1467@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca> Date: 25 Sep 89 15:25:53 GMT References:<11892@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <7810@microsoft.UUCP> Reply-To: depeche@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca (Sam Alan EZUST) Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Lines: 19 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 article cmm1@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....