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From: cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PC Mag insults Amiga
Message-ID: <59211@bbn.BBN.COM>
Date: 30 Aug 90 11:25:12 GMT
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sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes:

}uzun@pnet01.cts.com (Roger Uzun) writes:

}>...  He states "Bringing Multimedia capabilities to the
}>majority of office desktops would be an extremely expensive proposition at
}>today's prices"  He then says a 386 equipped system would cost over $10,000.00

...

}Oh but the author is still *wrong* above, you can get multi-media on a
}'386 for much less than 10K. 5-6K would be more like it.

Could someone give me a rundown of what this equipment IS that costs
$5K [or $10K], and what the Amiga equivalents would be that they are so much
less expensive?  Thanks
  /Bernie\