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From: berlin@bu-cs.BU.EDU (David K. Fickes)
Newsgroups: alt.next,comp.sys.mac,comp.misc,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: NeXT press release (very long but interesting)
Message-ID: <25432@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 14 Oct 88 23:28:59 GMT
References: <5423@juniper.uucp> <3580@cs.utexas.edu>
Reply-To: berlin@buita.bu.edu (David Fickes Einstein Project)
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In article <3580@cs.utexas.edu> dvorak@cs.utexas.edu (Dan Dvorak) writes:
>
>
>                       price   proc.   disk   monitor  operating sys.
>                      -------  -----  ------  -------  --------------
>NeXT Computer System   $6,500  68030  256 MB  17-inch  MACH  

Sun 386i/150          ~ $7,000  80386  97? MB  15-inch  UNIX,MS-DOS

>Apple Macintosh IIx   $13,862  68030  192 MB  19-inch  Apple *
>Compaq 386 Model 300  $19,751  80386  300 MB  12-inch  (extra **)
>
>*  Apple's A/UX UNIX is an additional $2,600.
>** Compaq's UNIX is an additional $695.

But.. as others have mentioned... what about EDUCATIONAL prices
for Sun and Apples???? hmmm... I looked into ENTRY Level (100 MB disk)
Sun 386 i's.. and it came to about $7,000.. this includes a nice
pair of standard operating systems Ethernet ports and the usual
Sun nice stuff with a large monitor...  All packaged with an
operating system that made it a plug and play machine...  Of
course, with networking who needs disk on the durn thing anyways?
Just hook it up to your local Sun server which will give you lots
of relatively cheap storage of any kind you want.. Of course, it
also runs MS-DOS and all of that software as well as Unix stuff...

Now if only BILL JOY (are you listening...) would go out an convice
Sun that they should discount the 386i/150 with the smaller disk
at a 45% rate.. they'd sell TONS of them... just the one model...

I'm not impressed with the NeXT stuff.. new op system etc....and
I won't comment on Apple who will sue anything INCLUDING GNU!!!

- david
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