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Re: I'm faint! I just saw the price for MPW!

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From: Howard Berkey
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 10:39
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In article <wallich.724643856@pepper> wallich@ncd.com (Ken Wallich) writes:
>edw@distant.uucp (Ed Watkeys) writes:
>
>At least the prices aren't up their with the NeXT box (yet)...

Actually, it is pretty damn close.  Plus you get a hell of a lot more
with the NeXT.  And the development environment pretty much kicks butt
on MPW.

Used prices for mono NeXTstations (25 MHz 68040) w/ 8MB RAM and 105 MB
HD with the 17" 4-bit megapixel monitor are averaging about $2700.
This comes with a better development environment than you can currently buy
for the macintosh. 

That's a much better deal than a quadra (even a used one).

New prices run a little higher than a quadra w/ monitor.

(as a side note, Sun is offering SPARC classics now for $4000 new [but
you have to buy 12 ;-) ] or I believe around $8000 new.  It wouldn't
be too hard to dump $8-10k into a Quadra system and it would be very 
S L O W compared to the SPARC.  Plus there's better compilers
available etc...)

Of course I can't afford any of these so this is all just machine-envy
:)

-Howard

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