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In article <1992Apr07.235902.111121@cs.cmu.edu> cmaeda+@cs.cmu.edu (Christopher Maeda) writes:

   I don't see the problem with this.  Within a year or two, you are
   going to be buying 16mb simms or bigger.  Someone also mentioned that
   there are electrical/impedance/whatever constraints on the bus that
   keep the number of simm slots down.

You can buy 16MB SIMMs today, but it's going to cost you.  It seems
quite reasonable to expect that many people will want to expand there
machines beyond 16MB, especially if they intend to keep them for a few
years.  With only 4 SIMM slots you have to start throwing away memory
again.  (Soon we'll be hearing: "Well, just find a Mac user to sell
your old 4MB SIMMs to")

Btw, there are 16 SIMM slots in the Cube, 8 in the NeXTstations, and 4
in the Turbos.  I'm not convinced that going to 4 slots in the Turbos
was necessary.

   While we're on this subject, I also don't see the problem with
   Nextstep on the 486.  People are saying the 486's are too expensive.
   By the time NS486 is released and debugged, 486 machines are going to
   cost practically nothing.

NeXTstep on a 486 will be great if it is priced right.  $995 is not
right, however.

-Mike