Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!jarthur!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!wuarchive!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!alberta!aunro!atha!aupair.cs.athabascau.ca!rwa From: rwa@cs.athabascau.ca (Ross Alexander) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: The TT is finally there! Keywords: TT Message-ID: <283@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca> Date: 19 Sep 90 16:42:10 GMT References: <1898@ztivax.UUCP> <1990Sep12.190508.3153@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1990Sep13.172935.1342@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1990Sep13.185245.15406@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Organization: Athabasca University Lines: 26 mboen@nixpbe.UUCP (Martin Boening) writes: >Your margin of error is pretty big: The Sparcstation SLC will cost around >12000 DM (in words: twelve thousand DM). And its a diskless, fanless SPARC >workstation - not much good for the home user without a server, eh. Get your facts straight before posting. It prevents embarrassment. Look on the back of a SLC. See the SCSI port? Guess what plugs in there! Why, SCSI peripherals - imagine that. Disks and tapes and all kinds of clever stuff. But *not* servers. They (servers) plug in the ethernet connector, also supplied on _all_ Suns; but you don't have to have a server if you've got local disk... (the sun I'm posting from has 650 megs local and no server). Also: SLC's can be had for less than $3.5k - shop around. Bluntly, no CISC box that I know of now can be justified on price/performance grounds when compared to (almost) any MIPS / SPARC / 88K / generic RISC machine, unless you already have a large body of non-portable software. But that particular arguement can also be used to justify IBM 3090s and all manner of like overpriced beasties. 68030 boxes essentially don't cut it. The TT was born dead, but Jack & co aren't going to tell anybody :-) -- -- Ross Alexander rwa@cs.athabascau.ca (403) 675 6311 ve6pdq