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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life.
In-Reply-To: judge@alchemy.tcnet.ithaca.ny.us's message of 2 Apr 91 16:55:07 GMT
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In article <kucsZ1w162w@alchemy.tcnet.ithaca.ny.us> judge@alchemy.tcnet.ithaca.ny.us (rory toma) writes:

   Yes, but in order to get a usable NeXTStation, it's something like $4200 
   with a 200megger, and about $5000 with a 400megger.  The $3250 price is 
   for the 105meg model, which just doesn't have enough space for the OS and 
   all the applications.  The full extended OS, which comes with the C 
   compiler and a bunch of other neatstuff won't fit into the cheap model. 
   Oh, these are educational prices I'm talking about.  I hear for about 3K, 
   one can get a SPARC IPC from SUN.  Or one can geta 3000 and spend the 
   xtra 1K to get the '040 board...

The 105MB machines are usable, they just aren't ideal.  You do get a
license for all of the software with the NeXT so you can get it from
someone else or buy it on floppies from NeXT.  What do you do when you
run out of disk space on your Amiga hard drive?  You put what you
don't need on floppies, of course.  You have to do the same on the
NeXT.  I wouldn't buy another computer just because everything that
NeXT gives you for free doesn't fit on the hard disk.

-Mike

BTW: The NeXTstation is faster than the SPARC IPC.