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From: gjc@BUCSF.BU.EDU (George J. Carrette)
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Subject: Pricing
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Date: 28 Jul 89 00:58:38 GMT
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I saw an explorer-I configuration at ELI HEFRONS advertised in "the Processor"
for $3500. Perhaps you can give ELI's a call (in Cambridge MA) for a price
quote. At least you know he is handling explorers. 

Clearly the UPPER LIMIT for an explorer-II configuration would have to
be made against something like a DECSTATION-3100 or SPARCSTATION with
a Lucid or Allegro Common Lisp environment. If we take software developers
discount on brand-new hardware clearly we get about a $15k to $20k upper limit.
And that would be for brand new COLOR hardware with more functionality
and speed.

Where TI has blown it big is to be going the twice-as-expensive route
of an add-on-to-a-MAC-II technique rather than the motherboard
SPARCstation/DECStation route. The amusing, and ironic thing is that
it was the add-on-technique to the TI NUMACHINE that helped to kill
good old Lisp Machine Inc's LMI-LAMBDA.

-gjc