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From: jsh44765@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jonathan S Hofmann)
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Subject: Re: Will NeXT survive? Grow with the times?
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>>>>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.
>>.

Well, I've heard that NeXT is eyeing the Motorola 88k series for an expansion
board for the Cube on comp.sys.next. Other than that, student price, I can
get a slab (monochrome, 105Mb HD) for $3500-- about the STUDENT price of
a Mac SE/30, for a full-blown UNIX workstation capable of X, among other 
equally impressive things. (The retail price is $5k). Cubes run $5k, student.

                                                         Scott Hofmann
                                             hofmann@sumter.cso.uiuc.edu (NeXT)
                                                   Independant NeXT developer