Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!rochester!cornell!batcomputer!gould!steinmetz!uunet!eda!jim From: jim@eda.com (Jim Budler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: the price of the NeXT machine (was Re: NeXT) Message-ID: <246@eda.com> Date: 17 Oct 88 03:04:06 GMT References: <5423@juniper.uucp> <3254@utastro.UUCP> Reply-To: jim@.eda.com (Jim Budler) Organization: EDA Systems,Inc. Santa Clara, CA Lines: 27 In article <3254@utastro.UUCP> werner@utastro.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) writes: >In article , bader+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Bader) writes: >> jim@eda.com (Jim Budler) writes: >> > of his promise 3 years ago was he would deliver a great workstation for >> > $5000 *retail*. > first, what's this talk about a *PROMISE* ?! it was a goal > (at best) or hype (probably closer to the truth), and I still The word promise means many things, including a person standing up and saying I 'will' ... To be called a promise does NOT mean the person has to stand up and say 'I promise...'. Enough about a word. I always thought it was media hype, and I feel I was proven right by the way the media freely compared a $6500 University price machine to several $10-20K *retail* priced machines. -- uucp: {decwrl,uunet}!eda!jim Jim Budler internet: jim@eda.com EDA Systems, Inc.