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From: oliveau@cs.ucla.edu (Greg Oliveau)
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Subject: Re: Price of comparable high-end PC vs. Sun SLC
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In article <1990Aug13.011336.6089@rice.edu> ajayshah@aludra.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:
>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?).  

Well, the price of an SLC is $4995, and what a deal that is!  But, Unix
(SunOs) and Open Windows costs $350 (they are now bundling the two) and
the complete set of manuals is $600 for Unix and Open Windows.  The disk
business is strange.  They just cancelled their 327MB Disk/150MB Tape
package and are now selling a 669MB Disk/150MB Tape package for $6500!
So, it looks like your storage costs are going to be the major investment.
Apparently you can hook up around 20 SLC's to a single disk (or SLC
server) and not see significant performance degredation depending on what
you do - this of course was from a Sun salesman!

Greg.