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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: Open Letter to an MS-DOS User
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References: <1991Mar29.015546.24193@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> <1991Mar29.042136.8302@cec1.wustl.edu> <516@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 91 18:58:58 GMT
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>>Well, as a Mac user, I am very proud to find out that you need to compare
>>a PC with a 386 running at 25Mhz with a poor little SE having only a mere 6800
>									   ^^^^
>>at 16MHz.


I think the intended comparison was price, not performance. Not
too valid, anymore.. Mac Classics go for less than $800 (academic 
pricing, 40% discount, no HD). Still, your plain vanilla SE/30 
with 4 MByte ram and 80 Meg HD costs $2500, again at 40% student
discount. But you're still stuck with the infamous porthole, and 
if you're not a student, or have bought your lifetime allocation 
of _ONE_ mac then you'll have to pay another 40% (actually, 66%
more than the discount price). You could get a clone with 33 MHz 
386 cpu, with cache, 120MByte Connor, SuperVGA,4 Megs and Windows 
for a little less.


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