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- > As for the objections to our proposed $700 price for a full blown runs everything under
- >the sun emulator, our intent is at that time to offer educational discounts and also to offer
- >crippled, application specific versions (in addtion, by then we will be selling through
- >distributors, which will boost our sales and help the NeXT community grow, but will result
- >in a lower profit per unit sold). Currently, Executor-MSW is application specific due to our
- >prioritizing of bug fixes. When we have the real thing out we hope to still have products
- >out that are in the current price range. Details remain to be worked out but it would be
- >something like a general emulator that *doesn't* run any of the top 25 applications for $100
- >or less with the idea that for more money you can be enabled to run more applications. I
- >can't make any promises because there are some pretty large companies concerned with
- >macintosh compatibility and the market forces are pretty overwhelming.
- >
- I don't suppose I have any objections to a $700 price for the
- "full-blown" emulator... the important thing to me is that there
- be some reasonable upgrade policy. I haven't seen anything out
- of ARDI (other than the promise of a free upgrade to the first
- version that supports printing) regarding any upgrade path to
- get from Executor-MSW to the more advanced versions. I guess
- what I'm saying is I don't want to end up paying $1000 to get
- the $700 emulator.
-
- [ By the way, Cliff, you might want to narrow up your margins a
- bit when you post. Many people read mail on 80-column terminals,
- and anything beyond that either gets truncated or wrapped in
- an unpleasant fashion. ]
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