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From: galanter@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Philip Galanter)
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 23:50:03 GMT
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In article <8938@milton.u.washington.edu> iho@akbar.UUCP (Il Oh) writes:
>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.

The NextStation at any price includes a license for _all_ NeXT bundled
software.  The small disk version has 30+ MB _after_ various applications
are already on the disk, such as WriteNow.  The NextStation _is_ upgradable
in a couple of important ways...disk space and memory.  Simms can be added
later, and external SCSI drives can be used.  With the added disk space
University users can obtain, usually at their campus computer store or
through the academic computing organization, copies of any NeXT software
they want for use on their external drive.

So for the frugal, the best bang for the buck is to buy a minimal
NextStation, and then add 3rd party memory and disk drives, and then add
the entire base of NeXT software.

Phil



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