Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!psuvax1!news From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: New HP machines Bad News for NeXT?? Message-ID: Date: 20 May 91 21:36:20 GMT References: <1991May20.143857.1071@hulaw1.harvard.edu> Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Organization: Penn State Computer Science Lines: 17 In-Reply-To: roth2@hulaw1.harvard.edu's message of 20 May 91 18: 38:56 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: sunws5.sys.cs.psu.edu In article <1991May20.143857.1071@hulaw1.harvard.edu> roth2@hulaw1.harvard.edu writes: I just read in the wallstreet journal that HP will officially anounce it's "proffesional workstation" today, one based on the same '040 the NeXT uses. Interestingly, it will cost about the same as a station (and less than a cube) (around $5000 I think it said) and HP has *already sold* 10,000 of these babies!! Does anyone have any idea what they'll be running on that hardware? If it's anything decent, this would appear to be BAD NEWS for NeXT (no?). Yeah, with these computers and the Snake(57 mips/$12) HP could be a problem for a lot of computer companies. If only they sold Unix with their machines. -Mike BTW, the 68040 machines were announce last June.