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From: jcd@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Jean-Christophe Dhellemmes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Next, 40, Sparc, 2
Keywords: SUN, sparc2 performance, competition
Message-ID: <11090@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 13 Nov 90 22:45:32 GMT
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Here are the specifications of the new SUN SPaRCstations:

40 MHz SPARC processor
28.5 MIPS
4.2 MFLOPS
16Meg RAM
207Meg SCSI Hard disk (16ms)
19" monochrome monitor
1.44 Mbyte 3-1/2" internal floppy disk
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$14995 list price

GX model with color monitor Sony trinitron 16"
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$17995 list price

GS model 24-bit color, 1152x900, 19" 76Hz monitor
150K 3-D vectors/sec and 20K 3-D Gouraud shaded polygons/sec
OpenWindows available spring 1991
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$26995 list price

GT model color 108-bit plane frame buffer, 1280x1024, 21" 76Hz monitor
500K 3D vectors/sec and 100K Gouraud shaded polygons/sec
Lots of specialised graphics hardware (antialiasing, 3D gouraud
shading polygons with 32 light sources, etc.)
Available spring 1991
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$49995 list price


I thinks NeXT is hardly ahead of other computer makers. The software makes a
difference, that's true. The war is far from being over. What is NeXT's
answer to 28MIPS ? A spreadsheet ?

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