Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!mips!prls!pyramid!csg From: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent Subject: Re: What happened at SURF? Message-ID: <90818@pyramid.pyramid.com> Date: 11 Nov 89 20:05:25 GMT References: <16444@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU> <62094@peregrine.peregrine.com> Reply-To: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA Lines: 19 >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. Or to put it another way, they've ported Dynix to a PC. Pretty clever, since it gives you binary compatability between a supermini and the desktop; it actually starts to make NFS useful. :-) But is that $30K price accurate? That seems way too high; I was under the impression it was much cheaper. What I find humorous is that one of the decisions that went into selecting the 80386 for the Symmetry (instead of the more obvious NS32332) was that someday Dynix would be able to run PC software. Instead, they turned it around and made a PC run Dynix software. :-) Sequent has also promised their SVR3/POSIX port on the Subsequent, although there's no real indication of when that's going to be available; rumor has in 1Q 1990. (What I want to know is, why is Sequent hell-bent on an SVR3 port at a time when everyone else I can think of is getting ready to ship SVR4?)