heiby@mcdchg.chi.il.us (Ron Heiby) (10/25/88)
Tom Blenko (blenko-tom@CS.YALE.EDU) writes: > I don't think it's at all out of line to think about and discuss what the > consequences of the third might be. It is, after all, current news. AHA! I aliased comp.sys.next to the wrong newsgroup on my system. I aliased it to comp.sys.misc. Now I find out that "it is, after all, current news." I should have aliased it to misc.headlines!!! > Regarding the merits of the machine, two points: > > this capability is simply not available to a lot of people, and > not to anyone for $6K/system. Ah, yes. Precisely! It's "simply not available". They aren't shipping, and even when they do, it'll only be for educational institutions. We don't need a newsgroup to discuss vaporware. -- Ron Heiby, heiby@mcdchg.chi.il.us Moderator: comp.newprod "There is a fine line between stupidity and cleverness." (This is Spinal Tap)
davidbe@sco.COM (The Cat in the Hat) (10/26/88)
heiby@mcdchg.chi.il.us (Ron Heiby) said:
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-> this capability is simply not available to a lot of people, and
-> not to anyone for $6K/system.
-Ah, yes. Precisely! It's "simply not available". They aren't shipping,
-and even when they do, it'll only be for educational institutions. We
-don't need a newsgroup to discuss vaporware.
Yes, but there are quite a number of students that read the net, and will
quite possibly be buying the machines.
In addition the use of Mach and the various Gnu products will ensure a
high level of interest from people who don't have the machines, but want
to know about how it's working.
Besides, if we don't need a newsgroup to discuss vaporware, what do we
have comp.{deleted-to-save-my-posting-privileges} for?
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