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From: vsnyder@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Van Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: HEY, YOU!!!!!!!
Message-ID: <1991Mar6.015709.21377@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 6 Mar 91 01:57:09 GMT
References: <0bp3ksq00WAu4HgVQy@andrew.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: vsnyder@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Van Snyder)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <0bp3ksq00WAu4HgVQy@andrew.cmu.edu> kc2e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Kathryn Aileen Coonrod) writes:
>2) at LEAST 3 expansion slot, preferable a standard (VME!:-))
                                                      ^^^
VME boards cost about 3-5x ISA (pronounced PC) boards.  Are they enough better
(whatever that means) to justify the $$$ premium?  I'd rather have EISA, so
I can get high performance if I want to spend $$$, or decent performance for $.

>... The TT is a GREAT machine, with good software, and really
>great potential, for $1,000 less! If NeXT can market a very similar
>machine, for $4995, Why can't Atari, an established complany, make some
>of these things into option, and cut this by half?

University bookstores can sell the NeXT PizzaBox '040 to full-time students
and staff for $3100.  But I still think Atari should be able to compete.

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