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From: SLVQC@CUNYVM (Salvatore Saieva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Jobs in Boston
Message-ID: <90349.133341SLVQC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Date: 15 Dec 90 18:33:41 GMT
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In article <61300059@m.cs.uiuc.edu>, gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu says:
>
>> The price of the processor alone is $595 in quantities of 1000. So the
>> upgrade is quite cheap.
>
>If I were Steve Jobs, I would negotiate a cheaper price based on the
>fact that (1) Sun has dropped the 680x0 line of computers, (2) I am
>launching a new workstation, which is exceedingly difficult, and am
>not yet profitable, and (3) I have the potential to purchase 100,000
>CPUs / year within the next 4 years.

The price of the NeXTstation is sooo low that I would guess
Steve has already done good bargaining with Moto. Hell, $595 is
one big chunk of a $4995 computer, then there is the price of the
HD, memory, monitor, motherboard, case, software, etc, etc, etc. etc.
(This is not to mention the give-away prices of NeXTstationsfor
higher ed.) How in the world do they do it? This has got to be
the bargain of the century.

>Don W. Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
>1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801
>ARPA: gillies@cs.uiuc.edu   UUCP: {uunet,harvard}!uiucdcs!gillies

Sal.
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