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- From: "David Herron" <david@twg.com>
- Subject: System prices (was: Re: SPARCclassic vs. 486 (Was Re: SPARCClassic (and other Sun announcme
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 01:37:48 GMT
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- > However, I haven't seen Sparc's in my price range(around $2000.00) and
- > when I have or thought about going for 3-5K range the software price
- > comes into effect! I'd 10 times rather have a Sparc(or clone that was
- > faster than a 486) and 100 times rather have a HP 700 series, but dollars
- > are still the limiting factor.
-
- Yes, but ..
-
- Doesn't bringing the entry price down to ~$4000 make it affordable to
- a lot more people than when the entry price was ~$6000? It is not
- affordable to you, granted. But Sun is going in a slightly different
- direction than either DEC or HP with pricing. Neither HP nor DEC
- came in with such a low entry price (HP came closest) so they should have
- an harder time in making sales.
-
- > Can
- > you get workstations with low end color? I know a lot of the companies
- > offer gray(grey) scale pretty cheap, but I like the color.
-
- The SPARCClassic *is* low end color. 15" monitor at 1024x768 is
- low end, or at least is low compared to what sun is accustomed
- to selling ;-).
-
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- <- David Herron <david@twg.com> (work) <david@davids.mmdf.com> (home)
- <-
- <- During the '80s Usenet's mantra was: "Not all the world's a VAX".
- <- During the '90s I hope it becomes: "Not all the world's DOS (ick)".
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