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From: warren@.cs.pdx.edu (Warren Harrison)
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Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!
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Date: 21 Dec 89 19:51:21 GMT
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In article <206900150@prism> rob@prism.TMC.COM writes:
>
>   The key word here is 'vanilla'. A low-cost Mac could do this more easily 
>than a low-cost PC (by 'low-cost', I mean under about $2500), but the higher 
>end Macs compete with 386 and 486 machines that can handle this easily. 
>
I don't know what 386s are going for where you're at, but some of the local
(ie, NOT mail order) clone builders around here have 386 boxes going for
well under $2,000 ... naturally that's with only 1M RAM and a 20M Hard Drive,
but adding a few more megs of RAM still puts these boxes well below the cost
of any comparable Mac.
(Don't get me wrong ... I love my Mac ... I also love my Sun and my 286,
but if we take money into account the MS-DOS machines will win every time
in my book)

Warren
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Warren Harrison                                          warren@cs.pdx.edu
Department of Computer Science                                503/725-3108
Portland State University