Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?

[Bob Retelle <bobr1@provide.net>]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2001 19:36:13 GMT, "Sysop Fox-1" <fox-1@home.nl> wrote:

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>(some censured curses over here)
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>: > : >  - 64MB to 256MB RAM with battery backup, for
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>: > : You couldn't get that much ram on a 68000 because it only
>: > : has a 24 bit memory bus.  You would have to go to a 68030
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>: Why not using 80386, then ? It has it all- MMU and segmented adressing,
>and
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>I'm not subscribing to csa8bit to receive all those info I don't want to
>read.  Does this thread ever end?  Or would you be so kind to stop
>crossposting it with comp.sys.atari.8bit?  How much will it me cost to let
>you do so? :-)


Ignore it, it'll go away eventually.

It actually DOES have relevance to the Atari 8-bit world, as the
inspiration for designing a new inexpensive system harkens back to the
venerable Atari Home Computers that brought "Power Without The Price"
to the few dozen people who ever bought one.

(and yes, I have an attic full of them myself)

There's a lot of nostalgia for the "simpler times" and the "simpler
machines" which populated them.

I get nostalgic every time I think about spending $550 for a floppy
disk drive.

Unfortunately I doubt anything is ever going to bring those times back
again.

BobR