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From: cyliao@eng.umd.edu (Chun-Yao Liao)
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Subject: Re: $1000 68040-NeXT (was Re: NEXT and the 68040?)
Keywords: 68040, low-cost NeXT
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Date: 12 Mar 90 00:53:20 GMT
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In article <1990Mar11.024125.7409@cs.umn.edu> rantapaa@cs.umn.edu (Erik E. Rantapaa) writes:
>I heard from a reliable source that NeXT is planning to come out with a
>68040 version of the cube for around a thousand bucks.  Apparently they
>have got manufacturing costs low enough with their automated factory so
>that they can stamp them out for a fraction of that price.  I'm not
>sure what you'll get, but even a bare cube with 1M memory and OD would
>be very attractive.  Has anyone heard anything about this?

>-- 
>Erik Rantapaa
>  rantapaa@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu

Do you mean by this, the upgrade from the current Cube will cost $1000? or
you mean the production cost of each board is $1000? 
I certainly won't buy a cube with only 1 M of memory.

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