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MIPS would have put them in a completely different price bracket. The MIPS-based DECStation 3100 was $11,900[1] compared to the original $6,500 NeXT computer.
by opencl 7y ago
MIPS would have put them in a completely different price bracket. The MIPS-based DECStation 3100 was $11,900[1] compared to the original $6,500 NeXT computer.
[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=OzoEAAAAMBAJ https://books.google.com/books?id=OzoEAAAAMBAJ see page 44
- pinewurst 7y agoThat $6500 was without any disk beyond the unusably slow (as main storage) NeXT Canon optical drive. I suppose the DEC price was diskless but that was also full retail. Just because NeXT refused to discount didn't mean DEC (or Sun) were limited by that.