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From: philip@Kermit.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: mac emulation
Message-ID: <1990Mar6.071906.4235@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 6 Mar 90 07:19:06 GMT
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In article <14122@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>, daryl@cbnewsc.ATT.COM
(daryl.l.monge) writes:
> In article <39182@apple.Apple.COM> keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin) writes:
> >In article <1990Mar3.190730.15647@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
dbplass@apple-juice.UUCP (David Plass) writes:
> >>Could this be the beginning of a mac clone market?
> >Not if I've got to buy a $25,000 Sun 3/60. Actually, I have no idea how much
> >a Sun 3/60 costs
> 
> The current list for a 3/80 4MB 17" mono machine (diskless) is 6K.  Do
> you still think a IIci is all that much cheaper?  A sparcstation I, 8MB
> 17" mono is 9K.
> 
> Apple needs to do something about prices.  I simply cannot affort a II.
> -- 
I fully agree. But I'm not sure the workstations come out that cheap. Start
comparing software prices for the configuration you would like to use. You
can buy a Mac II for the price of 3 good pieces of software for a Unix box
(exception: NeXT comes loaded with good stuff, but I'm not sure this cuts
the price of products you have to buy).

Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu