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From: jafischer@spurge.waterloo.edu (Jonathan A. Fischer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: NeXT announcement (was Re: Atari Workstation)
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Date: 15 Oct 88 01:30:37 GMT
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In article <10019@cup.portal.com> BobR@cup.portal.com writes:
>The "Under $5000" workstation will now cost $8500 (U.S.) with one transputer,
>with optional cards of four more transputers available.  The operating
>system on the "AWS" will be Helios...

	Speaking of the AWS, what are peoples' feelings about how it will 
stand up to the competition of the new NeXT machine (see comp.misc for all
the hullaballoo)?  At $6500 US, it represents a serious threat, especially
given their advertising budget (and the media's love affair with Steve
Jobs).  Granted, the AWS offers multiprocessing AND an OS written for
multiprocessing; it also offers better graphics capabilities.  However,
the NeXT machine offers some really nice things that the AWS doesn't, and
I'm inclined to feel that, feature-for-feature, the NeXT machine comes
out on top.
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					-Jonathan Fischer