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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: "Chris Young" <unsatisfactory@bigfoot.com>
Date: 23 Jul 2001 22:13:08 +0100
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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On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 23:23:59 -0400, Bob Retelle (of comp.sys.sinclair "fame")
wibbled on for an age:

> It would probably look very much like the e--Machines system I just
> bought my daughter to take to college with her.
[...]
> The price is in the $300 ball park and it's a system she'll be
> familiar with and can make instant use of.  The software it runs will
> be compatible with most people she runs into in college.  It has a
> software base that no new computer could challenge for decades.

"decades"?  Slightly optimistic perhaps.  Look back a decade.  Find a
good software base.  Is this still a good software base?  No?  I rest
my case.

> ROM is nice, but restrictive.  Atari was hobbled by the difficulty of
> releasing bug fixes to its TOS operating system because the OS was in
> ROM.  (Well, that was one of the reasons.)   But it was VERY nice to
> have the system boot in seconds.

Dodgy OS.  If it was better designed, it would be able to have been
patched in software after the boot process. (see Setpatch)

Chris
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Follow-Ups:
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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>
- Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
  - From: Bob Retelle <bobr1@provide.net>

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