Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!wuarchive!uunet!van-bc! From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: A3000UX competition Message-ID: <2352@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 6 Dec 90 19:01:57 GMT Lines: 42 Return-Path: To: van-bc!rnews In <4165.275e781d@cc.helsinki.fi>, jalkio@cc.helsinki.fi writes: >In article <12097@hubcap.clemson.edu>, ddyer@hubcap.clemson.edu (Doug) writes: >> jalkio@cc.helsinki.fi writes: >> >>>I am not very interested in comparing the 68040 A3000UX until it exists. >> >>>And as it seems that 68030 A3000UX is about the same price that 68040 >>>NeXT it is not difficult to decide which one to take (for me!). There is >>>nothing very special in the A3000UX, after all. (I don't care for a >>>forthcoming "the only right thing" Unix you were talking about.) >> >> Ah, a few things I want to throw in here (there is a lot of re-hashing) >> >> 1) What is the end-user price for the NeXT's? (not the devel., ed.) >> Business will buy the cheapest (hey, its a business, right?) > >Gee. I think that the suggested retail price of NeXTStation is $4995. >The educ. price is about $3200. This includes 8MB RAM, 105MB HD, >Megapixel display, etc. > >I would really like to know if that $4000 is the EDUCATIONAL or RETAIL >price for A3000UX. If it is educational, I wonder what is the point in >paying nearly $1000 more for a system with 68030 instead of 68040 and >without DSP. I also doubt the Amiga system comes with as good display >than the NeXTs. > >Even if there was a 68040 Amiga for about $3000 educational, I would >still choose NeXT - because of DSP and the wonderful development environment. > > Jouni So... go away. -larry -- The only things to survive a nuclear war will be cockroaches and IBM PCs. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+