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From: rminnich@super.ORG (Ronald G Minnich)
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Subject: Re: Request for testers for Color X11 for Amiga
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Date: 21 Jun 89 14:17:49 GMT
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In article <19700@cup.portal.com> stephan@cup.portal.com (Stephen Derek Schaem) writes:
>I have a price of 8,000$ for a Unix workstation based on a RISC (mips), 
>with ethernet, scsi, 170meg HD, 19" mitsubishi monitor, 24 bitplane video,
>1280x1024 resolution, tape drive, '4D' graphics library etc...
> Well these one is not out yet:-) but You can get better than that for 15,000$

oh, ok, you quote a mythical (probably educational) price for something
that is not really available (but will be) then say that you can 
probably get the same thing for twice that price? What is your point?

   Some other thoughts:
1) 4mb on an Amiga goes much further than 4Mb on a sun. For a 
   simple reason: sun's page size is 8192 bytes. Think about that
   for a little while: each process requires at least 2 pages, i.e.
   16K. 
2) take a look at the Hello World debate on comp.lang.eiffel. 
   Hello, World in C on a Sun 3 is around 70 Kbytes. 
Off hand i would guess that 4mb on an Amiga goes about 8 times as 
far as on a Sun 3, and possibly 16 times. Either way, comparing
a 4 Meg sun to a 4 Meg amiga is stupid. 
   I think your price quote above proves that Richard Sexton is wrong;
portal has much better drugs than berkeley ...
ron