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Article #34508NeXT announcement (was Re: Atari Workstation)
From: Jonathan A. Fischer
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 1988 01:30
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 1988 01:30
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In article <10019@cup.portal.com> BobR@cup.portal.com writes: >The "Under $5000" workstation will now cost $8500 (U.S.) with one transputer, >with optional cards of four more transputers available. The operating >system on the "AWS" will be Helios... Speaking of the AWS, what are peoples' feelings about how it will stand up to the competition of the new NeXT machine (see comp.misc for all the hullaballoo)? At $6500 US, it represents a serious threat, especially given their advertising budget (and the media's love affair with Steve Jobs). Granted, the AWS offers multiprocessing AND an OS written for multiprocessing; it also offers better graphics capabilities. However, the NeXT machine offers some really nice things that the AWS doesn't, and I'm inclined to feel that, feature-for-feature, the NeXT machine comes out on top. -- -Jonathan Fischer
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!watdragon!spurge!jafischer From: jafischer@spurge.waterloo.edu (Jonathan A. Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: NeXT announcement (was Re: Atari Workstation) Message-ID: <9087@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Date: 15 Oct 88 01:30:37 GMT References: <1449@wayback.UUCP> <6528@pyr.gatech.EDU> <10019@cup.portal.com> Sender: daemon@watdragon.waterloo.edu Reply-To: jafischer@spurge.waterloo.edu (Jonathan A. Fischer) Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 16