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From: carl@grc.UUCP (Carl A. Pick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Digital Review SBC article
Message-ID: <414@grc.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 90 06:31:41 GMT
References: <26668@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: carl@grc.UUCP (Carl A. Pick)
Organization: GENROCO, Inc., Slinger, WI
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>I can't believe my eyes. I don't see how DEC can 
>hope to compete in this market! With 8+ MIPS 68030 
>boards going for $2500. And the new Heurikon 68040 
>25MHz board at 13.5 MIPS going for $3400.

The product isn't priced based on anything but what customers are
willing to pay for it. I'll bet Heurikon's board costs them more to 
make than DEC's costs them. If companies have a hardware investment in
the Qbus, software investment in VMS, require the DEC cachet for their
customers, need worldwide service, or whatever, nobody elses SBC will
do.

Small wonder they sell more of theirs than all other venders combined.