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- From: neubert@cuphub.cup.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
- Subject: Re: New RISC workstations / 88110 demise
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.154748.114@cuphub.cup.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 20:47:48 GMT
- References: <1992Nov2.234402.213@metrosoft.com> <1992Nov3.220241.12669@access.usask.ca> <1992Nov5.070242.1983@cubetech.com>
- Organization: California University of Pennsylvania, California, PA
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- In article <1992Nov5.070242.1983@cubetech.com>, andrew@cubetech.com writes:
- > In article <1992Nov3.220241.12669@access.usask.ca> jake@skatter.usask.ca writes:
- >>> I also haven't heard any word from NeXT that the NRW is dead.
- >>>
- >>> Gordon
- >>
- >>Grand, but what could possibly be taking them so flamin' LONG to get the
- >>thing, whatever it is, out the door?
- >
- > NeXT is not known for trying to get the hottest box possible out the
- > door before everyone else. I think NeXT's goals are to have a really
- > hot box running really hot software at a PC price (i.e. way less than
- > a SPARCStation 10). To do this you have to wait until stuff is cheap.
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- Way less than a SPARCstation Classic (i.e., $4K for color 50MIPs,
- 200MB, 16MB, RISC)? Would *love* to see it (in my lifetime), but...
-
- >
- >
- > andrew
- > --
- > andrew@cubetech.com | "Carpe Nocturn - I get more work done after
- > Andrew Loewenstern | 2 a.m. than most people do all day."
- > Cube Technologies, Inc. | - Simson Garfinkle
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- John Neubert
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