Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!decwrl!stanford.edu!neon.Stanford.EDU!torrie From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Anyone actually own an 040 Amiga? Message-ID: <1991May10.231335.21231@neon.Stanford.EDU> Date: 10 May 91 23:13:35 GMT References: <2q4Gfxv*1@cs.psu.edu> <1991May9.202323.5208@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <1991May10.172410.6666@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Sender: torrie@neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie) Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Ca , USA Lines: 23 melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: >In article <1991May10.172410.6666@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes: > There's nothing wrong with it. It is simply that if you > think in three years anyone will actually PAY YOU 3 grand, you've > got a few screws loose. 8-) >So, what do you think a $5000 computer that runs at 15 mips with a 17" >display will be worth in 3 years? $1000-$1500. 15 mips will be as fast relative to a new workstation in 3 years time as a NeXT 040 is to a Mac Classic today. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Evan Torrie. Stanford University, Class of 199? torrie@cs.stanford.edu Today's maxim: All socialists are failed capitalists