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From: jim@eda.com (Jim Budler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.misc,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: NeXT press release (very long but interesting)
Message-ID: <245@eda.com>
Date: 16 Oct 88 22:48:27 GMT
References: <5423@juniper.uucp> <3580@cs.utexas.edu>
Reply-To: jim@.eda.com (Jim Budler)
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In article <3580@cs.utexas.edu> dvorak@cs.utexas.edu (Dan Dvorak) writes:


>technical features, but the Wall Street Journal article gives
>an interesting price comparison to competitors' products, when
>comparably equipped.  All the machines shown below have 8 MB
>main memory and a large disk:

>                       price   proc.   disk   monitor  operating sys.

>NeXT Computer System   $6,500  68030  256 MB  17-inch  MACH  
NOTE: University VaporPrice

>Sun 386l/150          $16,990  80386  327 MB  15-inch  UNIX,MS-DOS
NOTE: Retail, and discountable , Price

>Apple Macintosh IIx   $13,862  68030  192 MB  19-inch  Apple *
NOTE: Retail, and discountable, Price

>Compaq 386 Model 300  $19,751  80386  300 MB  12-inch  (extra **)
NOTE: Retail, and discountable, Price

>The price difference is even more surprising given the large
>amount of software bundled with NeXT -- things like Common Lisp,

I don't see any price *comparison* above. It's dismaying to find out
that even the people at Wall Street Journal cannot read. *ALL* the
prices quoted from NeXT are University Special, and they don't even
say what the percentage is. I'd estimate that at about 40% the NeXT
would probably be about $11K and it has no tape drive or floppy.

The software is nice, but much of it is also Beta.

>Dan Dvorak          ARPA/CS/NSFnet:  dvorak@cs.utexas.edu
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