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- From: bull@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: CBM Discusses Future Amigas
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.160253.90099@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 16:02:52 +1000
- References: <1992Sep13.161833.8545@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> <1992Sep14.180411.90091@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> <1992Sep14.104106.784@nntp.hut.fi>
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- In article <1992Sep14.104106.784@nntp.hut.fi>, jpelkone@vipunen.hut.fi (Janne R M Pelkonen) writes:
- > In article <1992Sep14.180411.90091@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> bull@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au writes:
- >>
- >> I have only 1 thing to say re: Amiga + RISC.
- >>
- >> Please, please, please, please, please, please, ALPHA!
- >> (although MC88x00 is the more obvious option).
- >
- > Alpha is a bit expensive, atleast currently. It costs more
- > than $10,000 even in large quantities.
-
- The University where I work as a Computer Operator is (I am
- told) the largest *educational* VAX site in the Southern Hemisphere.
- The price I heard for *evaluation* copies of Alpha was nowhere near
- $10K each. Approx $3K was the price I heard.
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