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- From: andrew@cubetech.com
- Subject: Re: Concerns about NeXT Prices are warranted
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.032455.21329@cubetech.com>
- Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc.
- References: <1e8bebINNk0t@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> <1992Nov16.181812.25376@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 03:24:55 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.181812.25376@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> coco@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (felix.lugo) writes:
- >got to accept the fact that the new Sun hardware is very attractive and WILL
- >make potential NeXT customers think twice about which platform to support.
- >NeXTSTEP is great, but it's value is transitory. Hardware investment is
- >THE primary concern involved when purchasing for a big project (and I'm not
- >talking about a one time purchase by an individual). Software for devel.
- >purposes comes after that.
-
- For people that just want a unix box, yes. But if you want what
- NeXTSTEP offers, the vast majority will turn to NS486 because of the
- hardware. That's why NeXT is doing the 486 port before a PA-RISC or
- SPARC part for instance.
-
-
- andrew
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