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From: stone@hydra.unm.edu (Andrew Stone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: slab vs. cube and $$
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Date: 28 Nov 90 04:34:20 GMT
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In article <MDIXON.90Nov26181850@thelonius.parc.xerox.com> mdixon@parc.xerox.com (Mike Dixon) writes:
...
>there's also the control circuitry for the OD (which was left out of
>the nextstation).  (well, and twice as many SIMM slots, but they only
>cost board space.)  
>
Friends don't let friends buy underpowered workstations. IF you buy a slab
with 8k, you'll be throwing those simms away when you realize it takes a 
minimum of 12 to get any kind of performance whatsoever. Meanwhile, that 105
meg drive is not even enough for ye olde common denominator software that we
all know and love.

I advise newcomers to snatch the upgradeable, durable, optical-drivable 030
cube; but I applaud NeXT for realizing that not all of its customers need
the kind of power that your normal nethead cyberjock does.

	andrew