It would be a first for Outlaw, but others have done it before - in fact, the Sherwood P-965 chassis on which the 990 is based was developed as both a processor and as a receiver (the R-965, and the reason that the chassis is as tall and deep as it is). I hadn't tried to guess on a price - there are a lot of components that will have to remain, so I doubt you'd see that close to a 50% reduction in price, but I'd expect a pretty interesting price...