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From: mrc@milton.u.washington.edu (Mark Crispin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Nemacs and NeXT
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.042011.10163@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 26 Jun 91 04:20:11 GMT
Article-I.D.: milton.1991Jun26.042011.10163
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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.

Kya!  36-man-en (about $2,600 in today's exchange rate) is the worst
price I've heard (the previous worse rumor I heard was 20-man-en).
Nobody will pay that.

Is NeXT serious about the Japanese market?