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From: root@sbcs.sunysb.edu (root)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Next Machine
Message-ID: <1617@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Date: 22 Sep 88 12:22:41 GMT
References: <2658@sugar.uu.net>
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
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In article <2658@sugar.uu.net>, karl@sugar.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
	[ description deleted ]
> If Next, Inc. can deliver the machine in quantity at that price, they're going
> to blow the Mac II, the high-end PS/2s and ATs, and all the Suns and Apollos
> right out of the water.

	$6000 sounds like very aggresive price for a machine with the
	mentioned capabilities, esp if he is selling for $6000 - 40% = $3600
	to Universities.  I would bet that his list price is actually at
	least $10K with 40% discount giving $6K to universities.  After
	all he buys ram, 68030, ethernet, packaging from the same sources
	as Sun, Apollo, etc do.  I also find it pretty hard to believe that
	his Unix is going to be up to what Sun provides now (v4.0), unless
	he bought it from them.  By now Sun must have spent a thousand or so
	programmer years on their software base.  Anyways it does sound like
	a nice machine (at any price < $12K) so I will probably want one :-)

> -- uunet!sugar!karl, Unix BBS (713) 438-5018

					Rick Spanbauer
					SUNY/Stony Brook