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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
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Subject: Re: USENIX Summer 1991 and the absence of NeXT
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Date: 17 Jun 91 15:53:26 GMT
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In article <1991Jun14.194907.2960@kithrup.COM> sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:


   Of course, you could have gotten a cheap '386 clone and run unix on that for
   about half the money.

Of course, you would only have a VGA monitor, no DSP, no
floating-point co-processor, no window system(SCO Windows ?!), no
display postscript, no word processor, no Interface Builder(actually,
I saw one for $7500 (yes, $7500) for Motif, no Appkit.  Perhaps you
could tell me about all the other software that you don't get?  How
many DMA channels do you get on a cheap 386 these days?

Of course, for less than $1000 I can get an 80286 and run MS DOS 5.0
and Microsoft Windows 3.0.

-Mike