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Article #47426Re: mac emulation
From: Philip Machanick
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 1990 07:19
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 1990 07:19
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In article <14122@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>, daryl@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (daryl.l.monge) writes: > 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: > >>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 > > The current list for a 3/80 4MB 17" mono machine (diskless) is 6K. Do > you still think a IIci is all that much cheaper? A sparcstation I, 8MB > 17" mono is 9K. > > Apple needs to do something about prices. I simply cannot affort a II. > -- I fully agree. But I'm not sure the workstations come out that cheap. Start comparing software prices for the configuration you would like to use. You can buy a Mac II for the price of 3 good pieces of software for a Unix box (exception: NeXT comes loaded with good stuff, but I'm not sure this cuts the price of products you have to buy). Philip Machanick philip@pescadero.stanford.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!ucla-cs!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!shelby!neon!Kermit.Stanford.EDU!philip From: philip@Kermit.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: mac emulation Message-ID: <1990Mar6.071906.4235@Neon.Stanford.EDU> Date: 6 Mar 90 07:19:06 GMT References: <14122@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> <39182@apple.Apple.COM> Sender: root@Neon.Stanford.EDU (System PRIVILEGED Account) Reply-To: philip@pescadero.stanford.edu Distribution: usa Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University Lines: 23