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From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Summary: What's wrong with SCO (Sun vs 386)
Message-ID: <1991May4.135531.9281@pegasus.com>
Date: 4 May 91 13:55:31 GMT
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>How much did your Decstation and your SPARC cost you?  I haven't seen
>any I would buy for my own use with my own income.  Really, they are in
>a different class and should be recognized as such.  They had better work
>out of the box for over $10K.

Not meaning to refute any of the points made here, I'd just like to
note that considerable discounts on Sun gear are quite common (>35%).

(Even with that price adjustment the Intel driven mongrels seem to
win the price/performance shootout a lot of the time.)


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Richard Foulk		richard@pegasus.com