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In article <z!7G1fw=1@cs.psu.edu>, melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
> The 68040 NeXT comes pretty close.  The machines with only 8MB of RAM
> can drive you crazy when are running large programs, but $400 more
> does solve that problem.  With the educational prices running around
> $3300, there isn't anything better(IMHO).

Hi Mike! Here you are with those educational prices again... I told you I'd
take you into the loony bin with me if you did that again. :->

The NeXTstation costs 5 grand. I can practically buy a new car for that.

The competitors for the NeXT in the real world cost O(2 grand). Oh sure,
it's pretty fast (right at the low end of RISC chips), but what's the
market? From my copy of the NeXT software catalog, it's business and
engineering. These people already have Macs and DOS machines (and the 486
and 68040 are pretty close, so you get the same Specmarks), or if they're
using workstations they're going for the high end of the RISC world... not
a machine only a little slower than a Sparc.
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