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From: jasmerb@mist.cs.orst.edu (Bryce Jasmer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: next pricing
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Date: 10 Feb 90 18:52:35 GMT
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In article <1020@abvax.UUCP> jaz@calvin () writes:
>The NeXT computer sells at list price at businessland. This price is
>$9995.00 w/optical, and $6995 w/out. I wish people would quit quoting
>educational prices as if anyone can get the machine for that price.
>It's extremely annoying, misleading, and condescending.
>-jaz

I don't know exact numbers but there are a *lot* of people in education
that are on the internet (more than industry people??) so quoting educational
prices is not such a wrong thing to do. I'm sure we will all try to be
more considerate of the "real world" in the future.

Bryce Jasmer
jasmerb@cs.orst.edu

PS. please get your news header lines fixed. I cannot reply to "jaz@calvin"
because there is no machine named "calvin" in our subdomain. Thanks.