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From: rehrauer@apollo.HP.COM (Steve Rehrauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: NeXT compared to TT
Keywords: ste, help
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Date: 7 Dec 89 19:18:00 GMT
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In article <2401@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> gl8f@bessel.acc.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:
>Actually, it seems kind of silly to me. MOST ST's don't have the memory
>or disk needed to run GCC, and MOST ST buyers don't know C. NeXT puts
>GCC with their machine because it's a workstation.

I don't suppose the TT is aimed at the workstation market, but on the
other hand, what IS it aimed at?  It seems likely that a TT system will
cost $3K or more.  In the U.S. at least, I guess beyond us hackers who
have money to spend I don't see who the buyer is.  The ST doesn't have
the software base (or at least, it doesn't have the marketing presense)
or "pedigree" here to attract many business buyers.  $3K is far more
than Joe Average Consumer is willing to spend on a computer.  And if
it isn't bundled with a decent & attractive set of goodies, it might
not attract the wealthy hackers either.  So who buys it?  I'm curious.
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