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From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Next, 40, Sparc, 2
Keywords: SUN, sparc2 performance, competition
Message-ID: <325@heaven.woodside.ca.us>
Date: 14 Nov 90 18:05:08 GMT
References: <2403.273E80BF@blkcat.fidonet.org> <1990Nov12.135515@Atherton.COM> <11090@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Organization: RightBrain Software, Woodside, CA
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In article <11090@pt.cs.cmu.edu> jcd@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Jean-Christophe Dhellemmes) writes:
| 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
| --------------------------------------
| $14995 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 ?

NeXT's answer to 28 MIPS is $4995.  You can buy three NeXTstations for
what it costs to buy one SPARC 2.  That's a total of 45 MIPS across
three processors, and besides, you get 315 megs of disk space, three
monitors, six serial ports, 24 megs of RAM, and (hopefully) the Godzilla
example App from NeXT which lets you compute one problem on all three
machines :-)

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