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From: ballen@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Bruce Allen)
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Subject: IBM RS6000 delivery times
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Date: 1 Aug 90 17:46:26 GMT
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I apologize for posting this here, but it is the only newsgroup that I
participate in, and the subject should be of interest to other Sun users.

My friendly IBM salesman has been trying to convince me to order an
entry-level (model 320) RS6000 machine.  In my experience, these are about
3 times as fast as SparcStations on floating-point intensive code.  I
would be more interested if I thought that they could actually deliver a
system before next year.  He claims that delivery times are 6-8 weeks.  I
don't find this credible.  Can anyone relate their experiences?

		Bruce Allen