Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!xylogics!merk!alliant!linus!eachus From: eachus@linus.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: A different review of the A3000 Message-ID: Date: 7 May 90 18:51:11 GMT References: <135251@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Sender: news@linus.UUCP Organization: The Mitre Corporation, Bedford, MA Lines: 34 In-reply-to: admiral@m-5.Sun.COM's message of 5 May 90 02:32:17 GMT In article <135251@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> admiral@m-5.Sun.COM (Michael Limprecht SUN Microsystems Mt. View Ca.) writes: - Calling it a workstation. When you do this you put this machine up against some real heavy hitters (Sun, DEC, MIPS and to lesser extent, Apple). This box has a nice price-point and that will help but not that much. Come on!!! The A3000 out benches and outperforms ALL Sun-3's and before, and is in the same performance ballpark as the SparcStation. I would really have to do a lot of side-by-side benchmarking to determine which is "faster," but the user percieved reality seems to be close to no difference. Check out Friday's S.F. Chronicle. There's an article on Sun releasing a new workstation in the $4-5K range (list). And it will be I figure 4X's faster. This trend of high speed/low cost workstations isn't going away. As a personal computer the A3000 is fast but as a workstation it's a slug. Its nice that your company (Sun) is coming out with new products, but what has that got to do with the definition of a workstation? And if the Amiga 3000 at 6-7x an Amiga 2000 is a slug what is a Sun-3? I prefer the response of the Amiga to that of any Sun, and I will often flip screens (on my 2000) to do something else while waiting for a Sun to finish some complex command like a directory listing... -- Robert I. Eachus with STANDARD_DISCLAIMER; use STANDARD_DISCLAIMER; function MESSAGE (TEXT: in CLEVER_IDEAS) return BETTER_IDEAS is...