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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MacMINIX is now available
Message-ID: <8053@star.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 25 Oct 90 23:02:18 GMT
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In article <1687@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au> sam@chook.ua.oz (Sam Sangster) writes:
>Except that in Australia we have to wait 'till January 1991, and pay about
>$300 Australian (equivalent of ~$400 US) ... any comments why the extra cost?

Most companies sell to their foreign branches at only slightly below the
retail price.  They jack up prices to cover their costs.  This is true of
virtually everything.  Check out Australian prices on other computer things
and compare them to ads in Byte.

When I was a student in Berkeley, I had friends who flew to Germany, bought
a Volkswagen from the factory, spent a month driving around Europe and
had the car shipped back to California for less than what the same car
cost from the Berkeley Volkswagen dealer.  

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)