Imagine how much a Interlisp-D, Smalltalk, Mesa/Cedar workstation would have cost in the 70's versus a plain PDP-11.
Eh, if they'd put Altos in serial production instead of small batches at a time adding up to 2,000 units it wouldn't have been vastly more expensive. There was nothing both exotic and wildly expensive about them compared to contemporary PDP-11s + a graphics console. The extras were a mouse, chord keyboard, network adapter, and more memory per person than normal for a PDP-11.
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Imagine how much a Interlisp-D, Smalltalk, Mesa/Cedar workstation would have cost in the 70's versus a plain PDP-11.
Eh, if they'd put Altos in serial production instead of small batches at a time adding up to 2,000 units it wouldn't have been vastly more expensive. There was nothing both exotic and wildly expensive about them compared to contemporary PDP-11s + a graphics console. The extras were a mouse, chord keyboard, network adapter, and more memory per person than normal for a PDP-11.