Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!van-bc! From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: A different review of the A3000 Message-ID: <1510@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 8 May 90 11:39:52 GMT Lines: 52 Return-Path: To: van-bc!rnews In <8812@sbcs.sunysb.edu>, rosej@sbsynchem.cs.sunysb.edu (John Rose) writes: >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 ;-) Ahh. You are confusing a comparison with a base. When Sun (or anyone else) quotes MIPS, they are _basing_ the measurement on a machine that has well known performance. Folks can look at a figure and take a guess that their application will run n times faster. Though this can be called a comparison, nobody runs around saying "Oh boy! My machine is faster than a Vax 11/780." Suns tend to be 'old' after a very few years. A year ago, anyone in our office would have gladly accepted a 3/60 as a machine for their desk, now they would mutter things about SPARCstations and how hobbled they'd be by only 2 MIPs. >>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"? Hear hear! -larry -- NeXT. The hardware makes it a PC. The software makes it a workstation. The units shipped makes it a mainframe. -=stolen from Hazy=- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+