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From: daugher@cs.tamu.edu (Dr. Walter C. Daugherity)
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Subject: Re: Report on new NeXT's
Summary: minor corrections
Keywords: 68040, NeXT
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Date: 19 Sep 90 04:29:49 GMT
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In article <8348@helios.TAMU.EDU> daugher@cs.tamu.edu (Dr. Walter C. Daugherity) writes:
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>$500 per MIP at $6500, with a 386 or Mac ci at $2000 per MIP.  A Mathemtica
>benchmark which ran in 26 seconds on this NeXT took 40 seconds on a Sparc 1+
>and 250 seconds on a Mac ci.

Mathematica is bundled on educational machines only.

...
>I will leave to the trade press the descriptions of Jim Manzi's theological
>ruminations (e.g., "Why did Lotus reinvent the spreadsheet with Lotus?
                                                                 ^^^^^
I should have said "Improv."

>Because God wanted us to."), ....

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