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From: mikes@NCoast.ORG (Mike Squires)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Will the Next sell?
Summary: Real comparison is a 486 with SCO UNIX V
Keywords: NeXT competitors
Message-ID: <1989Nov26.041027.24776@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 26 Nov 89 04:10:27 GMT
References: <4283@helios.ee.lbl.gov> <30217@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
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In article <30217@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> hughes@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (larry hughes) writes:
>
>I don't agree...give a dog and pony show of a NeXT and a '386/Xenix
>machine to a team of high executives.  See which one they think is
>sexiest.  (After all, which one is a preppy black cube with voicemail?)
>

I think the real competition for the NeXT (or Sun, for that matter) is
a 486 box running either SCO UNIX V 3.2 or Interactive 386/ix.  I have
a copy of SCO UNIX V 3.2 and it has X11, NFS, TCP/IP, Motif.  SCO is
selling a package that will run mutiple 486 CPUs in parallel - and a 
486 is 20,000 Dhrystones/sec, not 4000.  Entry level 486 boxes will
be selling for $5000 list (it's actually cheaper to build a 486 than
a 386, fewer glue chips needed).  When 486 production ramps up at 
the end of '90 the market will be very interesting.

For some real data, take a look at MIPS magazine; they seem to be doing
a good job of looking at the new 386/486 hardware as well as systems like
the NeXT, DECstation 3100/2100, etc.

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