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From: pmcd@yunexus.yorku.ca (Phil McDunnough)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Info on new low-end Mac
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Date: 24 Jul 90 12:42:46 GMT
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In article <1810@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
>In <1119@cs.nps.navy.mil>, schweige@cs.nps.navy.mil (Jeffrey M. Schweiger) writes:
>>A 12.5 mips (MIPS - sometimes referred to as 'meaningless indicator of processor
>>speed' :-)  ) Sparcstation 1 for less than $3039 (US) (price of A3000/25-40
>>package on the US educational purchase program), this sounds interesting...
>>I know that the lower end Sparcstations (and Sparcstation clones) are getting
>>less expensive, but I hadn't heard it was that cheap.
>
>Well, they aren't, yet, that low cost, unless he's talking LIST for the 3000
>and some educational pricing for the SLC. He would also be talking about a
>diskless desktopper.

Well I suggest you talk to Sun. They are that low. Yes I am talking about
a SLC without a HD, but with the SunOS,SCSI,serial,Ethernet,large monitor.
SCSI hards disks are relatively cheap, and we have a source licence for
UNIX, as you do. Since we are talking educational pricing here, the Sun
will turn out to be less than an Amiga 3000 with a 100meg HD(that's not
large by the way). Moreover you will have to add Ethernet, Unix( will you
get only the binaries?),etc...to the A3000. In the end you end up with a
computer which may be more "fun" than a Sparc but one which doesn't
compare with the Sun powerwise. Try looking at the Mflops' rating. The
68882 is not the greatest floating point coprocessor around. In any case
it is an issue of software. The Amiga just doesn't have that at the moment,
except for very specialized cases.
>
Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto
philip@utstat.toronto.edu
[my opinions]