Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!apple!voder!pyramid!prls!philabs!sbcs!root 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 Lines: 21 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