Re: What the ST should be (Kurt Olson)

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From: Kent L Shephard
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1991 21:12

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In article <519@cronos.metaphor.com> barry@speaker.metaphor.com (Barry Friedman) writes:
>UNIX/X with 68010 and only 2 megs would be an incredible dog. 68030 with
>4-8 megs would run UNIX/X tolerably. Maybe Mach would be a better choice,
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>I think it is on its way to being PD. Throw NextStep on top of that, and it
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>would be really cool.
>

By George!  I think he's got it.  You just described my '030 NeXTcube.
Yep, I like it and have my PC-Clone sitting next to it. (no pun intended)

>-- 
>+=========================================================================+
>| Barry_Friedman();   /* "Why stop now, just when I'm hating it?"         |
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>| Software Engineer            |  barry@speaker.metaphor.com              |
>| Metaphor Computer Systems    | ...!{decwrl|apple}!metaphor!speaker!barry|
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Subject: Re: What the ST should be (Kurt Olson)
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