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From: bgribble@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Bill Gribble)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Info on new low-end Mac
Message-ID: <7904@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 23 Jul 90 16:02:40 GMT
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In article <1119@cs.nps.navy.mil> schweige@cs.nps.navy.mil (Jeffrey M. Schweiger) writes:

>A 12.5 mips (MIPS - sometimes referred to as 'meaningless indicator of processor
>speed' :-)  ) Sparcstation 1 for less than $3039 (US) (price of A3000/25-40
>package on the US educational purchase program), this sounds interesting...
>I know that the lower end Sparcstations (and Sparcstation clones) are getting
>less expensive, but I hadn't heard it was that cheap.

>Jeff Schweiger

But, as has been mentioned before, try checking out a Sun software price 
  list.  Let's see - a nice raytrace package like Sculpt or Silver.. some
  math software like Maple.. a good DTP program.. how's $50k sound?  Now
  that $3000 Amiga looks a little more attractive than that "$3000" Sparc,
  doesn't it?

Of course, that price guess could be way out of line - I've never bought
  any Sun sware - but from what I've heard it's pretty ballpark.  I still
  think an a3000 with Ethernet or something comparable and Unix looks
  like the most attractive X/Unix terminal for my poor-college-student 
  dollar.

                                           Bill.

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