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From: mcgredo@prism.cs.orst.edu (Don McGregor)
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Subject: Re: Next, 40, Sparc, 2
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Date: 13 Nov 90 19:11:03 GMT
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In article <7098@shemesh.GBA.NYU.EDU> ittai@shemesh.GBA.NYU.EDU (Ittai Hershman) writes:
>
>Price out the the SPARCstation-IPC.  It is a SPARCstation-1+ CPU
>(~16 mips), 8 bit color, 16 inch Trinitron monitor, 207 mbytes
>hard disk, 1.44 mbyte floppy for a list price of $9,995.  That's
>less $5500 with your discount.  And its been shipping in volume
>for a few months :-)
>
I asked them about the 1+, but the sales guy was not eager to push it
for some reason.  They said there would be long lead times on delivery;
he mumbled something about it not being produced right now (changeover
of their factory to SS2??).  Do they have a mono version of the IPC,
or are they using the SLC to fill that niche?  (Besides, you'd need
a couple hundred more MB of disk space on the IPC to compare them to
my baseline).  On the other hand, you get a couple slots with the IPC.

Again, I don't know why they weren't eager to push it; they've certainly
been advertising it enough in the trade mags.  Maybe it was just the
way the guy's sales quota was configured :-).

Don McGregor             | "I too seek the light, so long as it tastes  
mcgredo@prism.cs.orst.edu|  great and is not too filling."