Problems with the 7300

[Roy Smith]

	Oh boy! a real flame exchange, how fun! :-)

> weren't we expecting a machine that would blow your socks off??

	Yeah, I was a bit disappointed.  But then again, most of the stuff
AT&T has done (let's say since PWB) has been disappointing.

> Corporate users [..] need decent response time, and a [..] bug-free system.

	True; the second point even more so than the first.  Us "real
programmers" know how to work around bugs, and are willing to do so if the
payoff is high enough.  Corporate users won't be able to handle unexpected
situations as well and will just get discouraged.

> It would have been nice to have a machine so powerful and inexpensive
> that the biggest problem would have been which of the clones to choose
> from.  Do you see that happening?

	No, not with the 7300 I don't.  This is not to say that I think
there won't be 7300 clones.  OEMs make clones not because they think the
original product was technically good, but because they think it will
become popular (look at all the VT-220 ripoffs).  Especially with an
item aimed towards a non-technical audience, there is little correlation
between the two.
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allegra!phri!roy (Roy Smith)
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute