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From: larryh@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Larry Hutchinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Low-Cost Macintosh
Message-ID: <6793@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 3 Feb 90 00:10:22 GMT
References: <126900165@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <25c8e25c.62bb@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Reply-To: larryh@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Larry Hutchinson)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <25c8e25c.62bb@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> rcfische@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Raymond C. Fischer) writes:
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>The 68030 runs about $200.  A 68000 can be had for about $8.

Try again.  In quantities of 10,000 16MHz 68030s cost $90.  I estimate
Apple's cost is less than $30.  (They were buying 68000's for $6 five years
ago.)


>As for the 68000 being outdated, nonsense!  Video game machines and

There exists a growing body of programs that will only run on 68020/'881
level machines.  This is particularly true in science and engineering.


Larry Hutchinson, Tektronix, Inc. PO Box 500, MS 50-383, Beaverton, OR 97077
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