Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!ukc!dcl-cs!aber-cs!athene!pcg From: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Sun != Open Archtecture Message-ID: Date: 12 Jan 91 13:28:56 GMT References: <2199@aber-cs.UUCP> <3112@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Sender: cho@aber-cs.UUCP Organization: Coleg Prifysgol Cymru Lines: 26 Nntp-Posting-Host: teachk In-reply-to: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM's message of 10 Jan 91 13:58:51 GMT On 10 Jan 91 13:58:51 GMT, davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) said: davidsen> In article <2199@aber-cs.UUCP> pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo davidsen> Grandi) writes: davidsen> Of course one must also consider that between paying $1000 for davidsen> a 486 CPU or probably something like $100 for a SPARC chipset, davidsen> and sell a workstation at the same price, SUN would rather davidsen> keep the $900 "value added" that Intel wants for themselves... davidsen> Is that the correct price? $100 sounds cheaper than any price davidsen> I've heard for a 486 equivalent chipset. Who sells the CPU, davidsen> FPU, cache and controller for $100? SUN to themselves (my estimate, as I wrote "probably something like", but good chance that it is fairly accurate). I am sure that Intel do not sell themselves the 486 for $1000 either. $100 is another IMNHO good estimate there. It all has to do with whom keeps the difference between "cost" and "what the market will bear", doesn't it? -- Piercarlo Grandi | ARPA: pcg%uk.ac.aber.cs@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth | UUCP: ...!mcsun!ukc!aber-cs!pcg Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3BZ, UK | INET: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk