Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Tektronix shutdown & move away from 88k's?? Message-ID: Date: 31 Oct 90 01:45:57 GMT References: <2176@lupine.NCD.COM> <42310@mips.mips.COM> <43029@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <2804@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 22 In article <2804@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes: > In article peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > | > It is fairly cheap (starting prices ~$4999). > | Sorry. That's not "fairly cheap". That's not even "moderate". AT bus machines > | with 386es in them start under $2000. > Not with 4MB, FPU, ethernet, and 1152x900 displays, they don't. The 1152x900 display is the only part of that that's a significant cost component... the memory, ethernet, and FPU are in the few-hundred range. Buddy of mine just bought 1024x768 VGA (within spitting distance... besides, it's color) for under $1000 with the card and monitor. You're still well over 386 box prices. Sure, yours is faster... but the CPU is cheaper. Oh yeh, I'm including a disk. Yours is diskless, right? Basically, it should be possible to sell the thing for the $3000 to $4000 range and still make a profit. THAT would compete with 386 UNIX boxes in price and kill them in performance. The only thing missing would be 386 ABI compatibility. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com