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From: griffith@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Michael Griffith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AMIGA 4000????
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Date: 13 Oct 90 06:08:35 GMT
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a708@mindlink.UUCP (Gord Wait) writes:

>You can purchase a sparc station now (no disk) for about $5 K US
>dollars.. Add to it a SCSI drive for say $2 K and you have a workable sparc for
>$7 K US. This comes with 1152 by 900 70 hz display, full unix etc. I use an

Keep in mind that the diskless Sparc Station has a very slow SCSI port,
because it was never designed for disk action. It was designed as a diskless
workstation in a networking environment. I think the response on a 3000
with the 100 meg Quantum would be much better. The display is comparable to
the 2024 (or does it support color? probably not at that price). I agree that
Commodore's Unix will have to be as competively priced as possible if we are
to see Amigas becoming a standard (or at least semi-popular) workstation
environment.


| Michael Griffith                     | If I had an opinion it certainly   |
| griffith@eecs.ee.pdx.edu             | wouldn't be the same one as        |
| ...!tektronix!psueea!eecs!griffith   | Portland State University anyways. |