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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
Subject: Re: Amiga OS *IS* state of the art, but the NeXT is better
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In article <1991Apr3.070829.31178@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:

	   Well, what does your company do, what software do you
   have on the Amiga, and what are they expected to do with the
   machine? It doesn't make much sense to show an Amiga to people
   who are interested in doing SQL Database work, for example.

I am a student who works part time for Penn State as a programmer.  We
develop educational software.  We have Amiga Vision, and ...I'm not
sure what else.

	   For the A3000 it should be significantly under $1,000
   from the figures I've heard. And, before you start quoting
   prices, just because Steve Jobs doesn't care about making a
   profit doesn't mean that Commodore can afford to.

The Mac upgrade from Radius costs $3500 as I posted earlier.  Sun
sells their IPC(one of them) for $4995, the same as the NeXT.  They
also offer an educational discount similar to NeXT's.  I assume Sun is
making money.  NeXT's is probably making money on their low-end
machines.

-Mike