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Article #33166Re: NeXT press release (very long but interesting)
From: Jim Budler
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 1988 22:48
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 1988 22:48
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In article <3580@cs.utexas.edu> dvorak@cs.utexas.edu (Dan Dvorak) writes:
>technical features, but the Wall Street Journal article gives
>an interesting price comparison to competitors' products, when
>comparably equipped. All the machines shown below have 8 MB
>main memory and a large disk:
> price proc. disk monitor operating sys.
>NeXT Computer System $6,500 68030 256 MB 17-inch MACH
NOTE: University VaporPrice
>Sun 386l/150 $16,990 80386 327 MB 15-inch UNIX,MS-DOS
NOTE: Retail, and discountable , Price
>Apple Macintosh IIx $13,862 68030 192 MB 19-inch Apple *
NOTE: Retail, and discountable, Price
>Compaq 386 Model 300 $19,751 80386 300 MB 12-inch (extra **)
NOTE: Retail, and discountable, Price
>The price difference is even more surprising given the large
>amount of software bundled with NeXT -- things like Common Lisp,
I don't see any price *comparison* above. It's dismaying to find out
that even the people at Wall Street Journal cannot read. *ALL* the
prices quoted from NeXT are University Special, and they don't even
say what the percentage is. I'd estimate that at about 40% the NeXT
would probably be about $11K and it has no tape drive or floppy.
The software is nice, but much of it is also Beta.
>Dan Dvorak ARPA/CS/NSFnet: dvorak@cs.utexas.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!pyrnj!pyrdc!uunet!eda!jim From: jim@eda.com (Jim Budler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.misc,comp.os.misc Subject: Re: NeXT press release (very long but interesting) Message-ID: <245@eda.com> Date: 16 Oct 88 22:48:27 GMT References: <5423@juniper.uucp> <3580@cs.utexas.edu> Reply-To: jim@.eda.com (Jim Budler) Organization: EDA Systems,Inc. Santa Clara, CA Lines: 89