[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
- Subject: Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
- From: Roy Miller <millers@inebraska.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 17:00:17 -0500
- Newsgroups: alt.amiga, comp.sys.amiga.advocacy, comp.sys.amstrad.8bit, comp.sys.apple2, comp.sys.atari.8bit, comp.sys.atari.advocacy, comp.sys.atari.st, comp.sys.cbm, comp.sys.sinclair
- References: <9ikva3$ple$1@nereid.worldonline.nl> <dcpskt8o93grt93kd0qpr9q3mt95oacsqk@4ax.com> <3B5CA174.MD-1.4.15.unsatisfactory@bigfoot.com> <1cprltsf4b4ec02mj898hi5odak7r2457p@4ax.com> <3B5F27CA.MD-1.4.15.unsatisfactory@bigfoot.com>
- Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.amiga:1587 comp.sys.amiga.advocacy:22094 comp.sys.amstrad.8bit:3879 comp.sys.apple2:11458 comp.sys.atari.8bit:7205 comp.sys.atari.advocacy:704 comp.sys.atari.st:14572 comp.sys.cbm:18969 comp.sys.sinclair:46009
Chris Young wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 17:17:50 -0400, Bob Retelle (of comp.sys.sinclair "fame")
> wibbled on for an age:
>
> > With the kind of momentum behind the current OS, it's unlikely that
> > any other OS will be able to overtake the existing software base for a
> > long, long time, if ever.
>
> My point was that the existing software base will not look as good in
> a decade, let alone decades.
>
> > Go to the local CompUSA and check out how much shelf space is devoted
> > to native Linux apps.
>
> Oh, yes, I'll just pop over the Atlantic in my private jet and have a
> look.
>
> Clue: The USA is not "the world"
Clue: It is.
:-)
Other places are just satellites
>
>
> Chris
> --
> +-------------------------------------------+
> | Unsatisfactory Software - "because it is" |
> | http://www.unsatisfactory.freeserve.co.uk |
> | Your Sinclair: A Celebration |
> +-- http://www.ysac.cjb.net/ --ICQ:28784166-+