Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!mcnc!thorin!homer!leech
From: leech@homer.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: hardware costs, again...
Message-ID: <14306@thorin.cs.unc.edu>
Date: 26 May 90 14:41:45 GMT
References: <5620@seac.UUCP> <1990May23.163155.4933@ico.isc.com> <35O3P93@xds13.ferranti.com> <1990May25.004135.351@ico.isc.com> <136279@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <1990May26.140550.1480@virtech.uucp>
Sender: news@thorin.cs.unc.edu
Reply-To: leech@homer.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech)
Organization: University Of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Lines: 13
Summary:
Expires:
Sender:
Followup-To:
Distribution:
Keywords:

In article <1990May26.140550.1480@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>All of the pricing that has been posted here about the 386s are quantity
>1 Jon Q Public prices and you can't compare them to quantity/educational
>discounted prices.

    No, *you* can't.  Those of us who can get academic discounts
certainly can, and a DS2100 (for example) looks real good compared to
a 386SX.
--
    Jon Leech (leech@cs.unc.edu)    __@/
"We were driving along, minding our own business, when there was a
 sudden flash of blue light which blotted out the stars. I thought it
 was a nuclear bomb going off and despaired for my career." - Keith Hughes