RE: dat need fur speed...

CobraBoy (tbyars@earthlink.net)
Tue, 21 Jan 1997 12:35:37 -0800


>Yeah, but the only fair comparison for the 8500/180 is a Pentium Pro
>200, which, by the way, Teledesic is buying for under $3K, loaded.
>Gotta love what having some real competition among hardware vendors does
>to prices.
>

Cool, I paid $2K for a 32/2 gig 8X. Of course I *do* know a few people.

>I don't want to get into any flame wars by going against the FoRK CW,
>but I'd just like to have this message achived with me putting my chip
>down on Apple/NeXT being a complete failure and causing Apple's death
>and dismemberment far faster than it would have happened otherwise.
>

Don't agree. Apple is still a far bigger company than Sun or SGI and I
don't hear anyone saying their doomed. Apple as I have always said will end
up a 6-7 billion dollar a year company. They will keep their installed user
base, and continue on.

>With 24 months, Apple's entire installed base will switch to Win97 or NT
>5.0.

We'll see.

Tim

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