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From: rehrauer@apollo.HP.COM (Steve Rehrauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Well the rumor I heard....
Message-ID: <45ee8549.71d0@apollo.HP.COM>
Date: 29 Sep 89 18:10:00 GMT
References: <2837UD158339@NDSUVM1> <125372@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <4315@wpi.wpi.edu>
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In article <4315@wpi.wpi.edu> northrup@wpi.wpi.edu (Jim Northrup) writes:
>I heard this HP buying Amiga rumor even after the HP bought Apollo event.
>
>The more interesting rumor I heard is that HP is working on a ~$3K workstation.
>Even if it's not much good, I suspect that such a box would do wonders for 
>the prices of the (risc) DecStations and SparcStations.  

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.  It's inevitable that prices will fall
further across the whole industry.  That's not to say that HP may or
may not be considering some relationship with Commodore; I have absolutely
no idea, though I highly suspect the answer is "not".
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