Xref: utzoo comp.arch:6756 comp.sys.misc:1861 Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.sys.misc Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: The NeXT machine has been announced! (long) Message-ID: <1988Oct23.002359.20542@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <360@elan.UUCP> <449@oracle.UUCP> <4005@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 88 00:23:59 GMT In article dpm@cs.cmu.edu (David Maynard) writes: >I think the high price tag IS a real barrier to student sales. If you add up >the component costs though, it would be REALLY hard to build a $3K workstation. >The 68030 isn't cheap. Memory prices are still pretty high when you want 1Mbit >parts, and hi-res monitors cost a pretty penny... The hi-res monitor prices are a problem. The other two problems you mention can be solved by simply using the last generation of parts rather than the current one. Really, guys, there is no law of nature that says you have to have a 68030 and 1Mb RAMs to have a useful workstation. -- The meek can have the Earth; | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology the rest of us have other plans.|uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu