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From: dyer@atari.UUcp (Landon Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: The 68020 Suggestion
Message-ID: <398@atari.UUcp>
Date: Thu, 24-Jul-86 14:12:55 EDT
Article-I.D.: atari.398
Posted: Thu Jul 24 14:12:55 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 25-Jul-86 06:16:42 EDT
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In article <5311@sun.uucp>, cmcmanis@sun.uucp (Chuck McManis) writes:
> While we all admire what Atari has wrought with bringing the price of
> 68000 machines down to earth, your $3000 number is a bit absurd. Mostly
> because the monitor alone to display 1200 X 800 monochrome graphics is
> on the order of $1000 wholesale. Add to that the $200 price of *each*
> 68020 chip, multihundred dollar price of 68881 chips, 4 Meg of ram 
> (which at $3 per 256K chip is still $384) Add to a new box, bigger 
> power supply, you have to include a hard disk to make it run at any 
> speed. No, I don't think $3000 will buy you a Sun workstation ($8000 
> will :-)) I think the best that can be said is that in 5 years it
> will probably be possible. Ah well.

I respectfully suggest that the prices quoted above are
representative of the company buying the parts, and not what
the parts really cost.
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-Landon Dyer, Atari Corp.		{sun,lll-lcc,lll-crg!vecpyr}!atari!dyer

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