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From: wolf@cbnewsh.att.com (thomas.wolf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TT's (was Re: Talking about other computers here)
Message-ID: <1990Dec4.123906.8082@cbnewsh.att.com>
Date: 4 Dec 90 12:39:06 GMT
References: <1990Dec3.200650.25435@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
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From article <1990Dec3.200650.25435@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, by cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz):
> In article <RALPH.90Dec3173300@orion.laas.fr> ralph@laas.fr writes:
>>Don't forget TT's are already on sale elsewhere (a little expensive though)!
> 
> 
> Realy???  How much?
> 
> Just to piss glh off...I saw a demo of the new NextStation today.  Someone
> earlier mentioned that the windowing system was very slow.  That doesn't
> seem to be a problem.  Seems that when you throw a 25mhz 68040 at the GUI,
> it seems fine.  I didn't notice any slowness.  However, the machine wasn't
> running THAT many tasks at the time either.  The educational pricing makes
> the thing so cheap that you could throw in the NeXt 400dpi laser printer
> too and have a very nice unix system with scads of included software at ~$4500.
> 
Just to continue this non-ST discussion....
Please explain your $4500 price.  Someone posted the NextStation educational
prices a couple days ago.  I believe a usable system came in around $5000
for mono and $6500 for color - and that is without the 400 dpi printer you
mention.

>>Enjoy,

Enjoy.

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