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From: kevin@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Kevin Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Will the Next sell?
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Date: 27 Nov 89 15:56:00 GMT
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In-reply-to: tierney@lbl-csam.arpa's message of 22 Nov 89 17:26:31 GMT


	First, why I would never buy one:
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	Third, the business community:
	   Here, I'm not sure, but it seems most company's would rather spend
	$4000 for a 386 machine running Xenix and an 80M drive than $10,000
	for a Next with a 330M drive. We'll see...

I don't know about this one. 8Megs of memory and 256Megs of disk are
*not* something to be sneezed at in terms of cost. Then ya gotta add
Xenix/Sys V-386/another variation of u__x. I think that by the time
you buy the 386 machine and add all the stuff that comes standard on a 
NeXT, you're looking at closer to $10,000 than $4,000 and even then,
you're looking at mix-'n-match components and not a system that was
designed as a whole, cohesive unit (ie. a workstation.) Of course, I'm
rather biased, I *really* like the NeXT. |->

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