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From: eric@osiris.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore Show News Report
Message-ID: <994@osiris.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Feb-87 08:07:42 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 25 08:07:42 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 27-Feb-87 23:39:37 EST
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In article <8702240621.AA08747@ingres.Berkeley.EDU>, hatcher@INGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Doug Merritt) writes:
> I think that an Amiga 2000 with a 68020 running Unix will be pretty hot in
> the workstation market; should really put a cramp in the sales of $10,000
> machines...especially if you can add on an extra video board supporting
> 1024 x 1024 screens. Even at $5000 system cost (my own personal guess for
> this configuration), that's a pretty cost effective machine. Look out Sun
> and Apollo? (and whither Apple? [pun not intended])

	Sorry, I think they are going to have to do better than that to
go after the workstation market. The latest fliers I got from Sun
indicate that they are now selling the 3/50 in 6-packs for about $3900
apiece. That's a 68020 with 4 Mbytes of memory, 1024x1024 screen,
ethernet connection, and Unix. And given Sun's share of the market already,
I would guess that a similar Amiga configuration would have to be about
20% less to start stealing sales from Sun. Also, who knows what Sun will
be charging 6 months from now, when the Amiga 2000 finally starts
shipping in quantity.

	I would imagine that Apollo, Apple, and Next (?) will be pricing
their machines appropriately, as well.

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					eric
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