Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mit-eddie!apollo!rehrauer 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> Reply-To: rehrauer@apollo.COM (Steve Rehrauer) Distribution: na Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, MA Lines: 21 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". -- >>> "Aaiiyeeeee! Death from above!" <<< | Steve Rehrauer Fone: (508)256-6600 x6168 | Apollo Computer, a ARPA: rehrauer@apollo.hp.com | division of Hewlett-Packard "Look, Max: 'Pressurized cheese in a can'. Even _WE_ wouldn't eat that!"