🚀 go-pugleaf

The Star is almost useless to any of us who are doing computer
science R&D unless we can program it as we see fit.  The applications
that Xerox has seen fit to release at this time are indeed quite nice
but do not justify the cost ($20K with software if you buy 50 or more
of them in a year's time -- they give a nice discount for volume
buys (about 25% off)).  We asked Xerox to include Mesa.
They said OK.  They have not yet quoted a price to us however.
We also asked for the microcode.  Thye said Not at this time.
The Mesa release was contigent upon us buying a lot of them 
(like 50-100).  They are still confused about where their marketplace
is.  If commerical orders do not flow in rapidly in the next
few months then they might be much more interested in
turning it into a "programmer's workstation" that would suit us.
WEe have also asked them to include much more memory on the Star.
They admit it can be done but that they are trying to build even
smaller confiturations of it (it currently comes with 384 MB).

Dan
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