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From: bzs@BU-CS.BU.EDU (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.workstations
Subject: Re: Sony NWS Workstations
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Date: 7 Feb 88 22:54:51 GMT
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>      Any and all comments are welcome.  The UNIX/WORLD article was
>quite interesting and if nothing else the entry of this machine in
>the US market could start pricing wars that will drive down the cost
>of the low end engineering workstation products offered by the US
>companies.
>-- 
>George W. Leach				Paradyne Corporation

The impression I got (I don't remember the details but I had one of
their brochures with some prices and saw the UW article) was that the
machine was not particularly inexpensive. About $12K for a fairly
pedestrian setup, I remember a back of the envelope calculation
showint it to be slightly more than I would pay for a roughly
equivalent Sun or Mac-II with a disk etc., the Sun would be more
comparable in this case.

Were my impressions grossly inaccurate?

	-Barry Shein, Boston University