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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hewlett-Packard roumors...
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Date: 29 Sep 89 21:21:21 GMT
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In article <45ee2d75.d3a6@apollo.HP.COM> (Robert Moynihan) writes:
->Interesting.  Our SysV.3 unix environment is SVID compliant, and you say
->it's not Just-Like-Real-Unix.  If it's SVID compliant, it IS real unix.

Then, in article <45ee8549.71d0@apollo.HP.COM> (Steve Rehrauer) writes:
->I suspect it would be easier for us (HP/Apollo) to bring the price of
->our products down to ~$3K than it would be for Commodore to bring the
->features of a ~$3K Amiga up to workstation standards, at least where
->networking & available "workstationish" software are concerned.  The
->new HP/Apollo DN2500, for example of a "cheap" '030 box, is right at
->~$4K without a hard-disk.  

Interestingly enough, the Amiga 2500 (is that serendipity or what?) can
(and does) run SVID compliant SysV.3, and similarly equipped to the 
DN2500 (you need to add the Hi-res mono monitor and ethernet card to 
the Amiga and a disk to the DN2500) it prices out fairly competitivly.
(and I bet Commodore's margins are better because they already have a
 million Amigas out)

They aren't as far away as you might think. 


--Chuck McManis
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