Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!m.cs.uiuc.edu!p.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies From: gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Scoop on New Macs and Printers. Message-ID: <71100017@p.cs.uiuc.edu> Date: 26 Jun 90 13:51:00 GMT References: Lines: 25 Nf-ID: #R::-31:p.cs.uiuc.edu:71100017:000:944 Nf-From: p.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies Jun 26 08:51:00 1990 /* Written 2:28 pm Jun 23, 1990 by mmm@cup.portal.com in p.cs.uiuc.edu:comp.arch */ /* ---------- "World's Cheapest Unix Engine" ---------- */ A while back, I referred to pending announcements of prices cuts on Motorola 68K-family chips. The info has now been published, so I feel free to post it here: 68020 -- $47 68030 -- $95 68881 -- $38 68882 -- $44 All prices are in 1000-unit quantity at 16 MHz. These prices only apply to the new packaging options, ceramic quad flat-packs for the CPU's and PLCC's for the FPU's. /* */ Too bad Apple couldn't see its way clear to subtitute that $47 68020 for a (I'm guessing here) $2 68000. Also, many useful programs (mathematica, most greyscale programs) already choke on only 4 megabytes of RAM. Apple is crippling any new machine by restricting it to 4 megabytes. Mathematica is becoming a very widespread math teaching tool. And I suspect system 8.0 will take at least 8 megabytes!