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From: geoff@ITcorp.com (Geoff Kuenning)
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Subject: Re: A kind word...
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Date: 27 Nov 89 08:27:24 GMT
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> b) "It's too expensive"

Boy, not in my eyes.  I've been looking at the NeXT at the UCLA Students'
Store, and comparing it to educational prices for the SPARCstation 1 and
one of the DECstations (the salesperson was sufficiently confused/ing that
I'm not sure exactly which DECstation I was looking at!).

The net of my comparisons is that, for a similar price (the Sun and DEC
are about 4% higher), NeXT gives me 660 MB compared to Sun and DEC's 330.
The DEC machine gives me more RAM, but virtual memory makes RAM purely
a performance issue, whereas when you run out of disk, you're really out.
On top of this, the DEC and Sun must use tape for archival storage and
backup;  this means that you must upload a tape to disk before you can
really access the files freely;  on the NeXT I'll be able to stuff in an
optical disk and compile (or whatever) to my heart's content.

The bottom line is that, for my purposes, the NeXT is a vastly better
deal.  I'm putting money down on one tomorrow.
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	Geoff Kuenning   geoff@ITcorp.com   uunet!desint!geoff