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From: phd_ivo@gsbacd.uchicago.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: NeXT Prices---will anybody buy NeXT?
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Date: 3 Dec 89 06:55:34 GMT
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The topic has already been beaten to death, but let me
add to the last message on software prices. My AIX
(IBM Unix) pricelist indicates at least $1500 to
$2000 for the same or less functionality as that built
into the NeXT. Aside from Mathematica (>$1000),
TeX (PCTeX >$400), SyBase, Lisp, Mail, Terminal, etc.

Yes, NeXT needs more software and better hardware.
But what NeXT already offers now is VERY VERY cheap
when the whole system is being taken into account.

Ivo Welch

[waiting for the new CPU and DSP in the next NeXT]