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Subject: Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
From: Darren Salt <news@youmustbejoking.demon.cu.invalid>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 20:07:59 +0100
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I demand that Byron Desnoyers Winmill may or may not have written...

> Hardware:
>  - 68000, about 10MHz

ARM7500FE, 56MHz. Or lower, if you want to save a little more power.

>  - 4MB to 8MB RAM
>  - ROM based OS (patched in RAM)

Hmm...

[snip]
>  - HD 3.5" floppy, for communicating with my
>    other machines

No 10baseT or 100baseT Ethernet?

[snip]

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If in doubt, make it sound convincing.

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: Matthew Montchalin <mmontcha@OregonVOS.net>
- Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
  - From: Matthew Montchalin <mmontcha@OregonVOS.net>
- Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
  - From: Beyonder <beyonder@vrx.net>
- Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
  - From: Matthew Montchalin <mmontcha@OregonVOS.net>
- Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
  - From: wbdesnoy@acs5.acs.ucalgary.ca (Byron Desnoyers Winmill)

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