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From: slamont@network.ucsd.edu (Steve Lamont)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.visualization
Subject: Re: Sparc 2 specs
Message-ID: <4135@network.ucsd.edu>
Date: 1 Dec 90 18:52:24 GMT
References: <1990Nov27.211852.7180@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <1990Nov27.235030.118@cbnewsj.att.com> <1490@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>
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In article <1490@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> murray@sun13.scri.fsu.edu (John Murray) writes:
>In article <1990Nov27.235030.118@cbnewsj.att.com> vrr@cbnewsj.att.com (veenu.r.rashid) writes:
>>Interesting.  Does anyone have specs/prices for the personal Iris?  I would
>>be interested in comparing the two systems and any other systems that readers
>>would have experience with.  Please post if you have facts/figures.

There are a whole flock of PIs to choose from.  They come in three (four if
you count graphicsless) flavors of graphics capability.  The following is from
my current copy of SGI's Periodic Table of the IRISes as of November 1, 1990.

Processor speed:

4D/35 -- 35 MHz, 33 MIPS, 6.0 MFLOPS (MIPS R3000)
4D/25 -- 20 MHz, 16 MIPS, 1.6 MFLOPS (MIPS R3000)
4D/20 -- 12.5 MHZ, 10 MIPS, 0.9 MFLOPS (MIPS R2000)

Graphics models:

S - no graphics, just a cpu box.
(no designation) - standard graphics, 90K vectors/second, 5.1K
	polygons/second, 8 bit color, no Z-buffer
G - 90K vectors/second, 5.1K polygons/second, 24 bit color, 24 bit Z-buffer
TG - 200K vectors/second, 24K polygons/second, 24 bit color, 24 bits Z-buffer

Price:

4D/35S  - $10,900 ("promotional price, thru 12/31/90")
4D/35   - $21,000 ("promotional price, thru 12/31/90")
4D/35G  - $27,000 ("promotional price, thru 12/31/90")
4D/35TG - $31,000 ("promotional price, thru 12/31/90")

4D/25S  - $ 5,900 
4D/25   - $16,000 
4D/25G  - $22,000 
4D/25TG - $26,000 

4D/20S  - no such beast
4D/20   - $11,500 
4D/20G  - $17,500 
4D/20TG - $21,500 

These are all prices for an 8 megabytes system with *NO* disk.  An 8 meg
system is ultra brainless.  However, memory from other sources, such as
Clearpoint or Impediment, is pretty cheap for the 20 and 25 models.  The 35
memory boards apparently are sort of a strange animal, however, and the SIMMs
have some kind of dingus or doohickey that makes them more difficult to clone,
according to my memory spies.

Hope this helps.

I have no relation whatever to SillyGraphics or to either of the memory
vendors mentioned in this article.  See your local Silicon Graphics rep for
more details and more full color glossy brochures than you can possibly fit
into your wastebasket... :-)

The Navy and I have a deal:
The Secretary of the Navy doesn't hack computers and I don't tell him how to
drive ships.

							spl (the p stands for
							Personal IRIS, my
							foot... I'm still
							waiting for my
							Personal Y-MP/8128 to
							arrive...)
-- 
Steve Lamont, SciViGuy -- 1882p@cc.nps.navy.mil -- a guest on network.ucsd.edu
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