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From: blm@cxsea.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
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Subject: Re: NeXT press release (very long but interesting)
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Date: 14 Oct 88 15:25:30 GMT
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Reply-To: blm@cxsea.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
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Dan Dvorak (dvorak@cs.utexas.edu) writes:
|                       price   proc.   disk   monitor  operating sys.
|                      -------  -----  ------  -------  --------------
|NeXT Computer System   $6,500  68030  256 MB  17-inch  MACH  
|Sun 386l/150          $16,990  80386  327 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.
|
|The price difference is even more surprising given the large
|amount of software bundled with NeXT -- things like Common Lisp,
|Objective C, an SQL database server, a symbolic math program,
|Display Postscript, and a dictionary and thesaurus.

Of course the NeXT price is the EDUCATIONAL price.  Has anyone heard
anything about retail price?  If the educational discounts are anything
like the Mac's original discounts, we can expect retail of ~$13,000.
Still very competitive with the other machines mentioned above, but,
unfortunately, I don't think I'll be getting one soon...

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