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From: jerry@polygen.uucp (Jerry Shekhel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Duesseldorf: personal impression of the TT(T)
Message-ID: <542@bogart.UUCP>
Date: 4 Sep 89 18:40:36 GMT
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Reply-To: jerry@bogart.UUCP (Jerry Shekhel)
Organization: Polygen Corporation, Waltham, MA
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>>
>>You can say that again.  Please, people, remember that when you compare
>>the TT with a Next machine, for instance, you're talking about roughly
>>4x the price!  JT's motto is Power Without the Price, and we think
>>we're giving you just that.
>>
>
>Well, with the NeXT, you get scads of fine software (mathematica!) megabytes
>of data (websters, bartletts) [what appears to be] a progressive programming
>environment (objective C and mach) with extended utilities and system
>software (dispaly PS) and a funky box :-) 
>

How about the Sun 3/80?  It's a 68030 box with *awesome* Unix (SunOS), a
great programming environment, plenty of professional applications
available, for around $5K without disk.  You can buy it with 8- or 24-bit
color if you need that.  Talk about a funky box, the 3/80 is about the
size of a Mega.  And again, it's a *Sun*.  Anyone who's ever worked with
a Sun and SunOS can appreciate that.

I'm, typing this article on a 3/60, the older 68020-based Sun, running
X-Windows with TWM.  It's hard to believe that the Mac II is based on the
same 68020 hardware.  It's seems *so* much less capable!!!  If I ever have
the money to buy a 68030 workstation, it'll be a Sun.
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