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- From: fag2@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Farul A Ghazali)
- Subject: Re: NeXT vs Mac, Whats the difference?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.060210.27881@news.columbia.edu>
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- Reply-To: fag2@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Farul A Ghazali)
- Organization: Columbia University
- References: <1992Dec22.162810.451@otago.ac.nz> <1992Dec22.142201.17973@wam.umd.edu> <1992Dec24.100303.457@otago.ac.nz>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 06:02:10 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec24.100303.457@otago.ac.nz> athomson@otago.ac.nz (Alastair Thomson) writes:
- >>
- >> Has anyone got the low down on whether the release
- >> shrinkwrap ~$900 version of NS486 will include these tools,
- >> or will you have to buy the $2200 developer version?
- >>
- >> I hope it'll be in the release version. At $900, it's sure
- >> to have a hard time--at $2200 it's sureto be a failure.
-
- >From what my contacts at NeXT will tell me (Which isn't much!) you will have to
- >spend $2,200. But as my main point in the original post was, IMHO NeXT are *not*
- >aiming NS486 at the small user, it is aimed at corporates, notably those that
- >may use Win NT. NT certainly ins't aimed at small time users.
-
- Anyone know how much the edu. price might be or if there's going to be
- an edu version?
-
- -- farul ghazali.
- columbia university in the city of new york.
-