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From: tron@wpi.wpi.edu (Richard G Brewer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Selling through Businessland
Message-ID: <1612@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 31 Mar 89 20:45:03 GMT
References: <1554@neoucom.UUCP> <121@dg.dg.com>
Reply-To: tron@wpi.wpi.edu (Richard G Brewer)
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA. USA
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In article <121@dg.dg.com> rec@dg.UUCP (Robert Cousins) writes:
>Actually, since there are now a number of more powerful machines
>available at lower cost, one wonders how successful this tactic
>will actually be.  The new wave of 88000 based workstations (which
>do an honest 17+ MIPS) are available with Unix, monitor, etc. for
>approximately the same cost.  I know, I managed the DG AViiON AVX 400
>development here at DG which fits in this class.  Anyone who has ever
>used a machine of this class will never want to move back to the 
>(now) relatively slow '030.
>
>Robert Cousins

Isn't that the truth - DEC is on the WPI campus today spirring alot of
interest in their new workstation series, one of which uses a MIPS RISC
microprocessor, and all of witch come bundled with Mathematica, which, to my
knowlege, STILL isn't shipping with the NeXT...


Richard G. Brewer

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