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Re: NeXTStep 486 should cost $250

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From: Nathan F. Janette
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 18:06
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In article <3526@rosie.NeXT.COM> Lyle_Scheer@NeXT.com (Lyle Scheer) writes:

> As has been said before in this newsgroup, if you look at
> all the stuff that   NeXT sells to EVERY NeXTStep user, a
> comparible package for ANY other computer   would run well
> over $5,000.  I'm of the impression that the price we've
> set is   extremely cheap for what you get. 

While philosophically true, the above doesn't count for beans
toward the success of NeXTstep 486 if customers refuse to pay
the $995 asking price.

--
Nathan Janette		"I'm a NeXTstep man,
Dept MB&B, Yale Univ	 I'm a NeXTcube guy"
New Haven, CT
nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (NeXT)
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