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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: A3000UX academic pricing (was Re: A3000UX at UniForum?)
Message-ID: <1991Feb8.180341.22098@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 8 Feb 91 18:03:41 GMT
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In article <32529@auc.UUCP> rar@auc.UUCP (Rodney Ricks) writes:
>In article <1337@borg.cs.unc.edu> leech@vivaldi.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech) writes:
>>In article <1183@telesoft.com>, matt@telesoft.com (Matt Halls @day) writes:
>>|> >  Education Pricing:
>>|> >  A3000UXB (includes 5 Meg, 100 MB HD, ethernet board,UNIX Vr4 etc)
>>|> >  Individual  $4274.00  Institution $3724.00
>>|> >  A3000UXD (includes 9 meg, 200 MB HD ethernet board UNIX Vr4)
>>|> >  Individual  $5399.00  Institution $4699.00
>>|> Wow!! these prices are great.
>>
>>    I'm disappointed.  For $900 less, I can buy a Next with more
>>memory, a larger (albeit gray-scale) display,
>                          ^^^^^^^^^^
>
>That's probably where a lot of the cost difference comes in.  Color
>displays tend to cost a good deal more than gray-scale displays of the same
>resolution.
>
	1) The prices listed above for the A3000UX don't mention
a monitor. Do they include one? Maybe they don't. Maybe they also
do and give a choice of 1950/2024.
	2) The A1950 is relatively inexpensive to make. The CBM
grey-scale monitor costs almost exactly the same. The NeXT
monitor is also much higher res than the 1950.

>>                                              3x faster CPU,
>
>The 68040.  Is it fully debugged yet?  Give Motorola a chance to get the
>chip working right before expecting Commodore to release a system based
>on one.
>
>In fact, I think I remember reading that the NeXTStations have some kind
>of hack in them to get around the current known bugs in the '040.  Am I wrong
>about this?

	The NeXT has a final version of the 040. NeXT is the only
company currently receiving the 040 because they did all the
debugging for Motorola, kinda an inside deal. If there are any
bugs in it, they will be in everyone's.
>
>>--
>>    Jon Leech (leech@cs.unc.edu)    __@/
>
>Rodney
>-- 
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>Rodney Ricks,   Morehouse College                                      \\\///
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	-- Ethan


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