Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!virtech!cpcahil
From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: hardware costs, again...
Message-ID: <1990May26.140550.1480@virtech.uucp>
Date: 26 May 90 14:05:50 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>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <136279@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> plocher@Eng.Sun.COM (John Plocher) writes:
	[story of sun PC & its configuration deleted]
>	$3k-$5k depending on qty, educational discounts, etc
>	+ $250 Media charge for OS tape -or-  + $600 Media and full Manual set
>	$800 - $1k 3rd party 110Mb SCSI drive
>	========
>	$4k - $6k (And NO FAN noise!!!)

Now, give me a phone number & contact where I can get that system for that
price - quantity 1.

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.

In addition, with a 386 system the capabilities for low cost expansion
totally outweigh the capabilities for the sun.


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