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Article #17499Re: What the ST should be (Kurt Olson)
From: Barry Friedman
Date: Sun, 03 Mar 1991 15:30
Date: Sun, 03 Mar 1991 15:30
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In article <1991Mar3.001625.22154@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> carter@cat27.cs.wisc.edu (Gregory Carter) writes:
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>I think 2 megs is a good start on any base model.
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>As for the operating system, Wow you really blew it there. Who wants
>MiNT or TOS when UNIX/X-Windows is available.
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,
I think it is on its way to being PD. Throw NextStep on top of that, and it
would be really cool.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!olivea!apple!fernwood!cronos!speaker!barry From: barry@speaker.metaphor.com (Barry Friedman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: What the ST should be (Kurt Olson) Message-ID: <519@cronos.metaphor.com> Date: 3 Mar 91 15:30:49 GMT References: <1991Feb28.213727.46962@cc.usu.edu> <1991Mar3.001625.22154@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> Sender: news@cronos.metaphor.com Organization: Metaphor Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA Lines: 21