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From: umh@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
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Subject: Re: Will NeXT survive?  Grow with the times?
Message-ID: <1991Apr30.191117.4373@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
Date: 30 Apr 91 19:11:17 EDT
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In article <1991Apr29.164102.11221@kithrup.COM>,
sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes: 
> A four- or five-fold performance increase at roughly the same price.
> 
> Meanwhile, an R4000 machine, based on everything I've seen and heard, should
> run for about $10k or so (monochrome, I'm sure) and should be quite speedy.

A MIPS rep today told me to expect ACE machines (the compaq/microsoft etc
group) at $2K to $5K in Q2 92.Of course these will be no cache except the 8K+8K
on the R4000, and crippled in various other ways to be as cheap as possible,
but will presumably still be far above PC/Mac/Amiga performance.
 
Maynard Handley