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

Subject: Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
From: pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)
Date: 13 Jul 2001 09:07:41 +0200
Newsgroups: alt.amiga, comp.sys.amiga.advocacy, comp.sys.amstrad.8bit, comp.sys.apple2, comp.sys.atari.8bit, comp.sys.atari.advocacy, comp.sys.atari.st, comp.sys.cbm, comp.sys.sinclair
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In article <9ikva3$ple$1@nereid.worldonline.nl>,
T.J.T van Kooten <thomas@-nospam-worldonline.nl> wrote:

> For the sake of argument let's suppose you could design a next generation
> $300 homecomputer. The goal is to make a userfriendly machine for general
> use and for hobbyists. How would such a system look?

First of all, it would be two different systems:

A "userfriendly machine for general use" could very well be a closed
machine, like e.g. the early Macintosh models.  The user just wants to
use such a machine, without caring about the inner workings of it,
much like you e.g. watch TV without bothering to understand how the
TV set actually works.

A machine "for hobbyists" would be different: it would be open, well
documented, expandable, etc -- more along the line of the Apple II or
the PC's.  This machine is for people who want to poke around in it.

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References:
- If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
  - From: "T.J.T van Kooten" <thomas@-nospam-worldonline.nl>

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