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From: ajayshah@aludra.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
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Subject: Price of comparable high-end PC vs. Sun SLC
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Date: 12 Aug 90 07:52:29 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 302, message 3

The SLC is $5.5k including 

	-8M of RAM
	-a 17" screen of resolution 1200x1000 or so 
	-FP hardware
	-12.5 mips.  

With a 500M disk, the cost comes to $7.5k or so (does someone have exact
disk prices?).  The best available 486 does something like 8 mips. 8 meg
of RAM is $800 or so.  How much is a 17" mono display with 1200x1000 or
so?  And a .5G disk?  Basically, how do the contenders play off?