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From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!
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Date: 21 Dec 89 11:47:46 GMT
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In article <206900150@prism>, rob@prism.TMC.COM wrote:
 >   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. 

Given the recent dramatic drops in prices of PC-compatibles, you can now buy
a 386SX machine with a hard disk and 1M RAM for $1400.	Upgrading to 8M will
set you back another $700 or so, but you'll still have a machine that can store
8M arrays in a linear address space for well under $2500.

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