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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Sun != Open Archtecture
Message-ID: <3121@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 14 Jan 91 16:38:08 GMT
References: <2199@aber-cs.UUCP> <5177@auspex.auspex.com> <PCG.91Jan12161251@teachk.cs.aber.ac.uk>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
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In article <PCG.91Jan12161251@teachk.cs.aber.ac.uk> pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:

| Even worse, if you wanted to upgrade to a faster machine, you could
| either junk your Sun3 and buy a SparcStation, or instead just upgrade
| your SUN 386i to a SUN 486i (this upgrade was a well kept secret :-> and
| I think is no longer available). OOPS! Major problem for Sun
| marketdroids.

  Were any 486i's ever delivered? I started trying to get one in early
December 1989, to buy with money which went away at the end of the year,
and Sun couldn't find one. Later someone tried to order one (about May
1990) and couldn't get one for one reason or another.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
    VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use unix.