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From: benoni@ssc-vax.UUCP (Charles L Ditzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: A/UX cost
Keywords: A/UX Unix FullWriter
Message-ID: <1675@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 14 Feb 88 07:34:31 GMT
References: <1406@csib.csi.UUCP> <2489@tekig4.TEK.COM> <865@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>
Organization: Boeing Aerospace Corp., Seattle WA
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In article <865@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>, phd@SPEECH1.CS.CMU.EDU (Paul Dietz) writes:
> In article <2489@tekig4.TEK.COM> bradn@tekig4.UUCP (Bradford Needham) writes:
> >In article <1406@csib.csi.UUCP> jwhitnel@csib.UUCP (Jerry Whitnell) writes:
> >>A/UX... comes preconfigured on either an internal ($4,879)
> >>or an external ($5,549) ... upgrade package....
> >
> >I'm constantly amazed at Apple's marketing sense of humor.
> >Haven't they priced Sun's lately?
> 
> I wonder if the powers-that-be realize just how much they have priced
> themselves out of the UNIX market?  I gather that I wasn't alone in
> my vision of buying a MacII so as to ultimately run UNIX. But, I believe
> it is now cheaper to SELL my MacII and buy a Sun rather than just
> "upgrade". And with things like the NeXT machine coming RSN, Apple
> just might be in for a rude awakening.

I believe this is just beginning of Apple's attempt into the Unix market
but somehow it is not convincing.  I bought a Sun 3/60...


Sun holds the cards these days tho',  with apollo in steady decline (19.1
percent of the market - ComputerWorld) and Sun (27.7 %) unleashing
progressively lower ended SPARC - based machines (Sun 4/110).  NeXT
probably doesn't stand to much of a chance unless they can demonstrate
	1) something quite far beyond all the other unix boxes and
	2) an evolutionary path (upgrade to higher architecture -
		as the Sun 3/1*0 can upgrade to a Sun 4/1*0)