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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
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Subject: Re: NeXT >> 386SX (da Silva confused?)
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Date: 24 Feb 91 03:26:11 GMT
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In article <1991Feb17.004210.5827@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

   You can buy a 386SX box with VGA and room for 8 MB on the motherboard
   for $875. That's big enough to run UNIX, easily. In fact you can probably
   get the box, a big disk, and the UNIX license (V.3.2) for the neighborhood
   of $2000.

   Makes even the base NeXT educational price look sick.

Are we talking about the $3250 68040 NeXT?  You're going to need at
least a 25MHz 486 to even be in the ballpark.  At a campus computer
fair we had last week, I saw an IBM rep. demoing Word for Windows on
IBM's Model 55SX.  I must say a Mac Classic looks faster than what I
saw.  NeXT is still a price/performance leader in the
workstation(which is better than pc price/performance, of course).  At
least until HP releases their 50mip machines starting at $15,000.

Anyway, let's set record straight, the 68040 smokes the 386(SX) and
68030.  It's probably better than the 486 too.  Intel's architecture
has always been a generation behind Motorola's.

-Mike