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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AMIX?
Keywords: Amiga AMIX Unix
Message-ID: <49800@sun.uucp>
Date: 17 Apr 88 10:27:49 GMT
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In article <391@brambo.UUCP> morgan@brambo.UUCP (Morgan W. Jones) writes:
-> [Amiga UNIX box] == 	$6800 U.S. = $9000+ Can.
->
->Unless someone convinces me that I'm VERY wrong, I somehow can't see
->myself getting this!  And it makes me sad because I like the Amiga but
->also feel it necessary to get U**x.
->Morgan Jones - Bramalea Software Inc.        morgan@brambo.UUCP

You are not wrong Morgan. Something to think about, is that people who
make workstations such as Sun are constantly working down the price curve
and trying to make the whizziest system for the least money. IF IT WAS 
POSSIBLE TO MAKE A DISKFULL UNIX WORKSTATION FOR < $8K TODAY WE WOULD! 
We want to make one because we know people would buy them, but that is
like saying if someone would just make a flying car, rush hour traffic
wouldn't be a problem. Now both of these problems will be solved one
day but that day is not today so all you can do is wait until your
disposable income intersects the cost of a UNIX workstation. I would
be nice but it isn't possible yet. Just like it isn't possible to build
a Cray for less than $100,000. Those would sell too.


--Chuck McManis
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These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.