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From: kawakami@tornado.Berkeley.EDU (John Kawakami)
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: 11 Oct 90 01:57:37 GMT
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In article <8938@milton.u.washington.edu> iho@akbar.UUCP (Il Oh) writes:
>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.
>

It costs relatively little considering that Mathematica($800) and a spread-
sheet and a word processor are included.  There IS a C included, Objective C,
and C++ (probably G++).  TeX too.  You can probably add a SCSI disk for
relatively little money.

On the minus side, it has only 8MB ram.  Most of the old bundled stuff (Frame
Maker, Shakespeare, the optical drive) is missing.

I think it's a good deal because it kicks serious ass over similarly priced
and loaded PCs and Macs.  And Ataris and Commodores.


John Kawakami                  kawakami@ocf.berkeley.edu
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