Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!ox.com!math.fu-berlin.de!tmpmbx!scuzzy!src From: src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de (Heiko Blume) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Will NeXT survive? Grow with the times? Message-ID: <1991May01.130230.28990@scuzzy.in-berlin.de> Date: 1 May 91 13:02:30 GMT References: <11399@uwm.edu> <1991Apr29.144421.19819@oakhill.sps.mot.com> <10942@hub.ucsb.edu> Organization: Contributed Software Lines: 26 2004ktz@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (David G. Koontz) writes: >In article <1991Apr29.144421.19819@oakhill.sps.mot.com> jtr@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Jim Reinhart) writes: >>>The NeXT and the Amiga 3000UX have the same problem here: they're 68000 >>>based, so you won't expect any outstanding improvements in the next few >>>years. Even if NeXT and Commodore make like Sun and switch to RISC processors >How about a DEC 3100? Got a telegram from then saying the price was >dropped to $5K. >. i'd guess that's the price without the keyboard, which probably costs $3000. seriously, the keyboard of my vt220 just died, and when i called DEC they told me that if i bring them the broken one and pay THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS (aprox) i'll get a new keyboard!! considering that i can buy a brand new complete vt320 clone for about $50 more, that's what i call a RIPOFF. given that i wouldn't buy a ball pen from DEC, since it'll probably cost $50 to replace that ink thing inside. -- Heiko Blume <-+-> src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de <-+-> (+49 30) 691 88 93 [voice!] public UNIX source archive [HST V.42bis]: scuzzy Any ACU,f 38400 6919520 gin:--gin: nuucp sword: nuucp uucp scuzzy!/src/README /your/home