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From: ignatz@chinet.chi.il.us (Dave Ihnat)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: UNIXPC in the movies!
Summary: It died because it was badly marketed and overpriced
Keywords: stupidity
Message-ID: <8049@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 28 Mar 89 16:50:51 GMT
References: <640@ivucsb.UUCP> <4531@vpk4.UUCP> <545@argon.UUCP>
Reply-To: ignatz@chinet.chi.il.us (Dave Ihnat)
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Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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In article <545@argon.UUCP> ebh@argon.UUCP (Ed Horch) writes:
>I think I'd rather they used the money to advertise their products in
>appropriate places, so that maybe things like the 7300 wouldn't have
>died such early deaths.

*I* think I'd rather they priced their products properly, so they don't end
up with a good box that's just not cost-effective, and then, instead of re-
pricing when they realize their mistake, killing the product.  On a related
note, I'd also wish they would have understood just who to target for a powerful
little Unix box--not the "box for the masses", but the "desktop workstation for
the developers".