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From: robert@peregrine.peregrine.com (Robert Young)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
Subject: Re: What happened at SURF?
Message-ID: <62094@peregrine.peregrine.com>
Date: 27 Oct 89 03:44:50 GMT
References: <16444@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU>
Reply-To: robert@peregrine.UUCP (Robert Young)
Organization: Peregrine Systems, Inc., Irvine, CA
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In article <16444@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU> brsmith@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU (Brian R. Smith) writes:
>
>I didn't get to go to SURF - busy with classes, etc.  Did Sequent
>*reveal* anything?  I got this really cryptic letter beforehand:
>
>"It's more than a concept now...  ... It's a NEW SYSTEM OFFERING."
>
>I'd also be interested in whatever other goodies popped up.
>
>Thanks
>
>Brian

The cryptic thing was an add for one of their new babies:

	It is called S3.

It is a S81 in the body of a Micro. Pretty nice design. From what I could
see, this machine will be good when you need to offload your Symmetry. The
most logical use I see is to connect it through ethernet using TCP/IP plus
NFS. 

I was told that the price range was int the low $30K.

The O.S is called Sub-sequent  (accentuate the sub) and is 100% Dynix
compatible.

For the most the SURF was pretty melow. Some interesting things happened
though. They pretty much outlined what they have in mind for the next years
to come: faster disks, SPARC systems, more variations of the S3 such as S16 and S27.

Work is being done to make the S81 an ideal system for database systems.
Ingres is doing quite a bit of work on parallelism with database technology.

It looks like Sequent has got a very good chance of making big as they
become a multi-million dollar company.

The choice of the hotel sucked all the way. Simply poor planning.

I hope next year is different.




Robert Young
(Peregrine Systems)