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From: mitsolid@acf5.NYU.EDU (Thanasis Mitsolides)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Next, 40, Sparc, 2
Keywords: SUN, sparc2 performance, competition
Message-ID: <1337@acf5.NYU.EDU>
Date: 16 Nov 90 01:31:42 GMT
References: <2403.273E80BF@blkcat.fidonet.org> <1990Nov12.135515@Atherton.COM> <11090@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <325@heaven.woodside.ca.us>
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>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 :-)

That hope for a long time will be just that: hope.
And hope does not improve computational power much.
In any case, Sun also has a fast $4995 system.

I think it is safe to say
that for the moment NeXT has limited upgrade path.

Thanasis
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