Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Tektronix shutdown & move away from 88k's?? Message-ID: Date: 29 Oct 90 12:34:22 GMT References: <2176@lupine.NCD.COM> <42310@mips.mips.COM> <43029@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 15 In article <43029@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> axaris@acsu.buffalo.edu (vassilios e axaris) writes: > There is a company in Pennsylvania (Mars (?)) which manufactures an AT based > machine which has a SPARC processor and is manufactured by Tatung. [runs > sunOS] Sounds decent. > It is fairly cheap (starting prices ~$4999). Sorry. That's not "fairly cheap". That's not even "moderate". AT bus machines with 386es in them start under $2000. The main difference in manufacturing cost and components I can see is that you're running SunOS instead of DOS... is the SunOS license $3000? Is that with or without disk? -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com