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I have read and heard many complaints about the Wall Sts
comparison chart between NeXt and others.

What I would like to see here on the net is an OBJECTIVE (ha!) attempt at
doing this.  Lets get a price on a TRUELY comperably priced system. 
By comperably, what I mean is that all features on NeXT must be present
on the priced unit.  AND the price must be an actual cost to a university
student; not your guess at what it MIGHT cost if such and such a discount
would be made available.  Thus, I am counting on seeing input from folks
at Ohio State, Standford, Univ. of Berk., Univ. of Michigan, etc. or at
least folks who have access to THIS YEAR's price lists for students.

The machine priced needs 8 meg of memory, 256 meg of disk (though I suppose
it cannot be read/write optical since that isnt commercially available 
elsewhere at this time), thin wire ethernet, full unix WITH ALL THE VARIOUS
packages mentioned as a part of the bottom line price (mathmatica, etc.).

If the student cannot get that software via his school, then check out the
price at a local dealer; if they offer a comperable discount, that is fine.

If the specific hardware or software isnt available on the machine being
priced, then give us a quote for something comperable.

I would like to see prices on a Sun386i, Apple Mac II, and some kind of
386 based machine.  Other machines are certainly welcome if comperable
power wise to the 68030.

Anyone else interested in seeing the TRUE comparison?

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Well, I dont know if this is going to work; this system doesnt get alt.next,
and I am TRYING to cross post there...

Anyways, I have read and heard many complaints about the Wall Sts
comparison chart between NeXt and others.

What I would like to see here on the net is an OBJECTIVE (ha!) attempt at
doing this.  Lets get a price on a TRUELY comperably priced system. 
By comperably, what I mean is that all features on NeXT must be present
on the priced unit.  AND the price must be an actual cost to a university
student; not your guess at what it MIGHT cost if such and such a discount
would be made available.  Thus, I am counting on seeing input from folks
at Ohio State, Standford, Univ. of Berk., Univ. of Michigan, etc. or at
least folks who have access to THIS YEAR's price lists for students.

The machine priced needs 8 meg of memory, 256 meg of disk (though I suppose
it cannot be read/write optical since that isnt commercially available 
elsewhere at this time), thin wire ethernet, full unix WITH ALL THE VARIOUS
packages mentioned as a part of the bottom line price (mathmatica, etc.).

If the student cannot get that software via his school, then check out the
price at a local dealer; if they offer a comperable discount, that is fine.

If the specific hardware or software isnt available on the machine being
priced, then give us a quote for something comperable.

I would like to see prices on a Sun386i, Apple Mac II, and some kind of
386 based machine.  Other machines are certainly welcome if comperable
power wise to the 68030.

Anyone else interested in seeing the TRUE comparison?

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Subject: 
Summary: 
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-- 
Larry W. Virden	 75046,606 (CIS)
674 Falls Place, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068 (614) 864-8817
osu-cis!n8emr!lwv (UUCP)	osu-cis!n8emr!lwv@TUT.CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU (INTERNET)
We haven't inherited the world from our parents, but borrowed it from our children.