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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Eighth Edition and job control (was Re: UNIX Futures)
Message-ID: <1114@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 21-Apr-86 11:44:49 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 21 11:44:49 1986
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Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Organization: Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA
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In article <59@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.ARPA writes:
>
>The last price I could find for a 5620 is $3300,
>$3000 for the Core host software (which applies
>to any number of 5620s on the host), $2000 for
>the Text+Graphics software.  
>
>In article <1586@ism780c.UUCP> tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith) writes:
>>Anyone care to predict how long the dumb terminal will last?  Unless
>>it is real cheap ( i.e., almost free ), I can't see any reason to get
>>one when for maybe twice as much I can get a computer and run a terminal
>>emulator.
>
	They will last until the price of a BLIT or 5620 is < $1000,
since that is what it will take for less rich firms to start buying
them for ordinary users. Really $3000 is *not* cheap!
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				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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