Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cmcl2!sbcs!sbsynchem!rosej From: rosej@sbsynchem.cs.sunysb.edu (John Rose) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: A different review of the A3000 Message-ID: <8812@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Date: 9 May 90 03:56:16 GMT References: <135251@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <135378@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Sender: news@sbcs.sunysb.edu Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Lines: 32 In article <135378@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> admiral@m-5.Sun.COM (Michael Limprecht SUN Microsystems Mt. View Ca.) writes: >In article , eachus@linus.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus) writes: >> In article <135251@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> admiral@m-5.Sun.COM (Michael Limprecht SUN Microsystems Mt. View Ca.) writes: >> >> 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? >> >Again, Sun-3 is old stuff. Nobody in the market compares older, no longer >sold machines to new ones. This just ain't so. In the mid and late '80s most computer companies in the scientific computing market advertized their machines as being X times faster than the VAX780 which was decade old technology. Surely the Sun-3 in my office isn't that old ;-) (too be sure, the response time sometimes seems that long ;-) >What a meant to say is that when >you call your machine a workstation you invite comaparisons to others who >also call their machines a workstation. What I would like CBM to do is to >AVOID this intanglement and really show their strength which is multimedia >and price (not speed). That's what brought on the idea of Media-Station" >or maybe "Multi-Station" to mind. > Excellent point! Why put out "yet another workstation now" (YAWN)? Why not draw attention to the A3000's unique strong points by calling it a "Multi-Station"? -john (formerly of Sunshine Enterprises, where state of the art is a state of mind)