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From: cyliao@eng.umd.edu (Chun-Yao Liao)
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Subject: Re: rumors!
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Date: 12 Apr 90 20:32:18 GMT
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In article <8410@tank.uchicago.edu> gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <83smithw@physc1.byu.edu>, smithw@physc1.byu.edu writes...
> 
>>at some discount to b&w people, but you don't need to buy color to take
>>advantage of video board.  cpu upgrade plus video cost is under 1K maybe
>                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>under .5K(not color).  A multiprocessor board is in the works.  Motorola is
>^^^^^^^^^^
>
>The cost of the '40 chipset by itself is $200-400, right?  What about the other
>circuitry?  And the video board?  And Next's profit margin?
>Robert
>
	nope, as far as I know, the single chip set which can be purchased as
	sample costs over $700, I wouldn't imagine that a price of $200-$400
	can be made even with large quantity of purchase.  Of couse, if it
	is true that we can get upgrade PLUS video (I assum he meant color)
	for under K or .5K, I'd go to my campus computer store and order 
	my NeXT RIGHT NOW!

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