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From: rick@ameristar (Rick Spanbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga 3000 vs. Sparcstation
Message-ID: <1990May9.234636.5730@ameristar>
Date: 9 May 90 23:46:36 GMT
References: <5683@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Organization: Ameristar Technology, Inc
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In article <5683@sugar.hackercorp.com> karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
>Granted, as volume increases in workstations, the price difference for 
>peripherals and software should decline.  SPARC chipsets like the new one
>from LSI Logic should simplify the Sparcstation clone equation, but with the
>seven-chip set costing $1300+ (per set) in thousand quantities, it is unlikely 

	Remember that the SS chipset is said to be sampling at the
	$1300 price.  One would expect a reasonable price progression
	on this stuff given that you have several manufacturers
	competing at production of the CPU, FPU, etc.

>-- uunet!sugar!karl

					Rick Spanbauer
					Ameristar Technology