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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: ammonton@cc.full.stop.helsinki.fi
Date: 28 Jul 2001 12:58:18 GMT
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In comp.sys.sinclair sands-of-iowa <sands@cableone.com> wrote:
> Windows 3 came out less then 15 years ago before that there was 0
> software for it when an OS come out and it is used by a large base of people
> software is written for it  so it does not matter what OS you start with for
> your new machine if you can sale a large  number of them.
> but you do need to get the cost down to $150

Windows 3 could run software written for Windows 2 and probably even
Windows 1, not to mention all the DOS apps available at the time.

-a (ps. Punctuation is free, use it!)

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