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From: grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu (Dirk Grunwald)
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Subject: Re: DECstation 2100 versus SPARCstation 1
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Date: 27 Jul 89 22:34:32 GMT
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In-reply-to: steve@fnord.umiacs.umd.edu's message of 27 Jul 89 21:15:41 GMT


Of course, you're insane to buy either a DEC or SUN disk, unless you
want their maintaince. People here use CDC WREN-V's (630-ish Mb,
formatted) costing about $2500 a pop.

These can allegedly work with the PMAX as well, if you get the right
firmware level.

This makes the comparison for N systems:

	DEC: 3500 + 2004 + 2400 + N * (7950 + 2500)
	SUN: 1600 + 2000 + 750 + N * (8995 + 2500)

but the savings using DEC aren't huge;
less than $7000 (less discounting) for 10 stations.
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Dirk Grunwald -- Univ. of Illinois 		  (grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu)