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Re: mac emulation

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From: Mark Interrante
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 1990 13:24
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In article <39182@apple.Apple.COM> keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin) writes:
>In article <1990Mar3.190730.15647@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> dbplass@apple-juice.UUCP (David Plass) writes:
>>
>>BTW, the news release claimed 2-3x better performance on a Sun 3/60 than a MacPlus.
>>Could this be the beginning of a mac clone market?
>
>Not if I've got to buy a $25,000 Sun 3/60. Actually, I have no idea how much
>a Sun 3/60 costs, but I'm sure that it's much more than a Mac Plus. I'll bet
>that it's also more than a Mac IIci, which runs 4-6 times faster than a 
>Mac Plus.

Well here at UF we can add a 3/60 to our net for much less than the
cost of a IIci,  that is the reason that there are so few Macs here :(
Workstations *are* becoming cheap WRT high end macs and PCs.

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From: mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Mark Interrante)
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