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Aucbvax.1694 fa.apollo utzoo!duke!mhtsa!eagle!ucbvax!Gregg.Glass@CMU-10B Sat Jun 13 01:14:05 1981 cost of star A lot of you seem to think that a star is too much money and it might be if all it could do was some wordproccessing but it can do a lot more. It costs less then a perq and has a better display and some people at Xerox tell me that it is faster ? Our design database system, when running on a KA-10a can only support 2 people at a time. A perq or a star would be much less cost. AND for the most used subset of operations it would be faster. Even if only used as a terminal it would cost less then the LSI-11 / Lexidata framebuffer that we are using at this time. The more development that we put into systems the more high speed graphics become importent. The point that we are missing is that as the capability of the hardware grows the application grows in step. I think that the big flaw in the star is that they don't and will not sell masa with it and therefore is totally useless for me and I would guess most of us. Greg

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