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From: daugher@cs.tamu.edu (Dr. Walter C. Daugherity)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: New color Sun SPARCstation IPC
Keywords: Sun, SPARCstation, color
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Date: 26 Jul 90 21:29:39 GMT
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Sun Microsystems is now shipping a new low-cost RISC workstation with color.  
This will be hard to beat, so the sooner NeXT starts shipping their color 
graphics upgrade, the better!

The Sun SPARCstation IPC has the same performance as the SPARCstation 1 Plus 
(10.0 SPECmarks, 15.8 MIPS, 1.7 DP Linpack Mflops),
comes with a 16" color monitor (other monitors available as options, up to a
19" 1600 x 1280 high-resolution one!), 8 MB of memory (expandable to 48),
a 1.44 MB 3.5" IBM-compatible floppy drive,
thick and thin ethernet ports, 2 serial ports, SCSI-2 port, and an audio 
I/O port.

Commercial prices are $8995 with no hard drive or $9995 with a 207 MB internal 
hard drive.  Educational discounts are typically around 20%, I think.
2100 software packages are available, including Lotus 1-2-3, Word Perfect, 
DBase IV, and Ventura Publishing.

IMHO this will be the one to beat for DEC, HP/Apollo, et al., in addition
to NeXT.  Come on NeXT!

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