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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Tektronix shutdown & move away from 88k's??
Message-ID: <2804@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 30 Oct 90 15:45:04 GMT
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In article <P0R6UO2@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

| > 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. 

  Not with 4MB, FPU, ethernet, and 1152x900 displays, they don't. These
are aimed for a totally separate market. I haven't tested one yet, but
on paper they will produce better cost/performance than the Sun SS+, at
least at list price.

  25MHz SPARC, FPU, MMU, 64 bit memory path, 64k cache. Color, harddisk,
386, and thinnet are options.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
    VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use unix.