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From: iho@cac.washington.edu (Il Oh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Educational Discounting
Keywords: Considering that Atari is attempting to market a 68030 based, pricey
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Date: 10 Oct 90 19:48:33 GMT
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In article <2583@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> crouland@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Enemy Skater) writes:
>discounting program that will entice more students into dropping $4000 into
>an atari as opposed to picking up a NeXT 68040 for a mere $3200 after discount?

The NeXT configuration you mention (I assume it's the "pizza" box) comes with
a limited software bundle.  Among the things left out are the LISP and C
languages.  It also includes only the 160 MB hard disk, of which only
30 MB is available after the OS is loaded on it.  In addition, this box 
is not upgradable, other than through the ports.  You can't even upgrade 
it to color.

il
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