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Upgrade price for Photoshop alone was a lot less. And you could run it for years (forever[1] in fact, if you count emulation), as a lot of people did.

[1] Latest New Yorker Cover was Created in Photoshop 3.0 on Mac OS 7 (http://gizmodo.com/5059533/latest-new-yorker-cover-was-creat...)