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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Sun != Open Archtecture
Keywords: 386 sun 486 sparc
Message-ID: <3112@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 10 Jan 91 13:58:51 GMT
References: <2199@aber-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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In article <2199@aber-cs.UUCP> pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:

| Of course one must also consider that between paying $1000 for a 486 CPU or
| probably something like $100 for a SPARC chipset, and sell a workstation at
| the same price, SUN would rather keep the $900 "value added" that Intel
| wants for themselves...

  Is that the correct price?  $100 sounds cheaper than any price I've
heard for a 486 equivalent chipset.

  Who sells the CPU, FPU, cache and controller for $100? 
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