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From: Fischer.pa@XEROX.ARPA
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Subject: Re: Affordable Xerox Star?
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Date: Sat, 19-Oct-85 18:51:00 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 19 18:51:00 1985
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    Good point!  However, I like the object-orientation of the STAR
Desktop and
    wish that SOMEONE would make it available in a consumer-affordable
form,
    since Xerox apparently refuses to do so.

How about $5000 plus a tad more for the software?  Xerox Office Systems
announced a new 6085 machine a short while ago (month or two).  Its a
complete redesign of the (previous expensive) hardware that was needed
to run Star.  There's also a new incarnation of the Star software called
"Viewpoint" (which is even better I'm told, but I never used Star and
thus don't have an opinion).

It implements (now) more or less what the Mac office promised.  I've
seen and used it a few times.  The hardware is winning too (but I'm
biased).  It has a microprogrammable CPU, NOT an Intel series chip,
although a slave 80186 acts as an IO processor.

I can dig up and mail an address for more information to anyone who's
interested.

(ron)
PS- Although I DO work for Xerox (but in a different division) these
opinions are honestly my own and hopefully won't be construed as some
kind of commercial nonsense.  I personally like getting information
about products directly from the people who worked on them (but I did
not work on the 6085 or Viewpoint).