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From: pa1@tdatirv.UUCP (Pat Alvarado)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 386 machines are workstations? (Sun/386i)
Message-ID: <110@tdatirv.UUCP>
Date: 31 May 90 14:17:52 GMT
Article-I.D.: tdatirv.110
References: <136288@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <6537@vax1.acs.udel.EDU> <212@csinc.UUCP> <2268@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Reply-To: pa1@tdatirv.UUCP (Pat Alvarado)
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In article <2268@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
>In article <212@csinc.UUCP> rpeglar@csinc.UUCP (Rob Peglar) writes:
>
>| Submoral - if you really want SunView and snappy windowing, get a 
>| 386i/250.  Forget the 386i/150.  (n.b., discussion limited to 386i's,
>| no comments on 4's or other boxes, please.)
>
>  Sun announced a 486i last year, but we couldn't get delivery by year
>end. Has anyone actually seen the beast?
>-- 
>bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
>            "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me

My understanding is that the 486i is actually an upgrade processor board
to replace in a 386i. I don't believe that Sun intended to manufacture an
actual workstation. Perhaps someone from Sun may comment on this.


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