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From: ron@woan.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan)
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Subject: Re: Will the Next sell?
Keywords: NeXT competitors
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Date: 29 Nov 89 22:35:07 GMT
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In article <21603@brunix.UUCP>, rca@brunix (Ronald C.F. Antony) writes:
> You should not compare things that exist and such that don't.
> A fair comparison, in a time when 486 have BUGS, is a 386.
> If you want to compare the nonexisting 486-market with the NeXT
> then compare it with the next NeXT: 68040, DSP, multiprocessing
> (MACH) etc.

This is quite unfair as '486 machines are on the market from at least
a half dozen manufacturers and the bugs have long since been
corrected.  Also comparing at comparable list prices, '486 systems and
33MHz '386 systems still have an edge. The Interactive UNIX for '386
machines is very nice along with their X-Windows support and AIX/PS2
is pretty spiffy as well. With a list in the 10K range, you should
probably be comparing the NeXT to the Sparcstation 1, DECSTATION 3100,
and Data General AViiON machines; all of which (especially the latter)
can run circles around the NeXT box. Remeber, a DSP adapter is only
~$1000 even for an IBM-AT. NeXT has got to come out with a better box
next year and drop the price (list) if it expects to compete in the
commercial market against the RISC boxes. Color would be nice too.

						Ron

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