Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!m.cs.uiuc.edu!yonezawa From: yonezawa@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Noritake Yonezawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Nemacs and NeXT -- Insane pricing of 2.1J OS Message-ID: <1991Jun25.142851.24895@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Date: 25 Jun 91 14:28:51 GMT References: <2422@solvalou.mech.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1991Jun25.084107.15985@agate.berkeley.edu> Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL Lines: 20 izumi@mindseye.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) writes: >In article <2422@solvalou.mech.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp> >mizo@helmine (Hideo Mizoguchi) writes: >> >>I phoned Canon and asked about this Japanese OS but I was told that you can buy >>OS 2.0J for JPY 60,000 *IF YOU HAVE BOUGHT YOUR CUBE THROUGH CANON*. If not, >>you'll have to pay JPY360,000. Yes, it's about $2,500. >What kind of INSANE pricing is that? >That's 80% of EDU price for a NeXTstation. If that pricing is true, NeXT and Canon will lose lots of potential customers. No Japanese Emacs? No Japanese TeX? Only Japanese front-end? Who will pay $2,500 for such an incomplete Japanese OS? -- Noritake Yonezawa [yonezawa@cs.uiuc.edu] Department of Computer Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign