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by scruffyherder 1729 days ago
Imagine in today’s money sinking 12,000 USD on a computer.

Do you take the Macintosh II with A/UX aka Unix from a company that doesn’t seem all too interested in the product themselves and selling what seems like a toy or do you go with SUN? They hired Bill Joy, and they are 100% committed to Unix?

They simply cost too much for a non commital company like Apple. If anything it’s amazing they saw it through to the end of the Quadra