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From: jeffo@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Jeffrey B Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore at FCC
Message-ID: <1990Sep28.055905.9056@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 28 Sep 90 05:59:05 GMT
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ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies) writes:
>The shockers: It sports a 25MHz 68040, yes, an Oh Forty.  And the list
>price is $4995.

>If I speculate the price of an A3000 plus 68040 plus 8 meg RAM plus
>Viking 1 monitor plus Unix, I seem to get a number higher than that.
>[some stuff deleted here]
>While Commodore was pushing their low-end architecture up into the
>high end, the high end architectures have come down to meet them.  I
>don't want to be a doomsayer, but I don't think the A3000 will compete
>on their terms.  I don't know what Commodore could do to compete.
>Maybe they'd better stick to the low end.  Or maybe Commodore has a
>new high-end up their sleeve.

Lowering the price of CBM's Unix would help!  Also, lowering the price
of the 3000 would be nice...but I agree that the NeXT is looking good,
now only if it had some software...hmmm...
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Jeff
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Jeff
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