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From: baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten)
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Subject: Re: Apple cuts prices on IIci
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Date: 13 Sep 90 14:02:56 GMT
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In-reply-to: cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz)

In article <1990Sep12.152656.29635@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, cmm1@cunixa (Christopher M Mauritz) writes:
>I was thinking the same thing.  A person who is willing to buy a Mac IIfx
>would probably like the EXTRA power of a SparcStation SLC, the turn-key
>unix in SunOS 4.1, and the savings of $2-3,000.  [ ... ]

Uh, "turn-key Unix"?  Is that something like "Army intelligence" or
"Jumbo shrimp"?

I'm sure adding an extra monitor, or a tape drive, or a CD-ROM drive
or hooking it up to a network of other Suns are all "turn-key"
operations, too, right?  Assuming you're a guru, that is.

Other hidden costs of Unix systems include the cost of software.
Software for Suns generally costs two or three times as much as
software for the Mac, and it is almost always inferior (though there
are certainly powerful packages available, there aren't exactly loads
of choices when it comes to spreadsheets, word processors, graphic
design programs, etc.).  And some of us like to be able to pick up the
phone and order some nice new Adobe fonts now and then.

MIPs aren't everything.  Quality and availability of software --
including system software -- is usually more important.

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