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From: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Snakebytes (HP process technology)
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Date: 29 Apr 91 14:33:47 GMT
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In article <772@cadlab.sublink.ORG>, martelli@cadlab.sublink.ORG (Alex Martelli) writes:
>sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney) writes:
>	...
>:I am referring to marketing strategy. Sun has very successfully (to this date)
>:worked a "Middle of the Road" approach, letting Solbourne and others work on
>:either faster/stronger/multiprocessor options and affordable/cheaper/commodity
>:machines (such as the CompuAdd box). 
>
>I have not yet seen ONE Sun clone that is cheaper than a trueblue Sparcstation
>SLC from Sun itself (possibly with 3rd party 8->16 meg RAM expansion, and
>with a 3rd party external SCSI-connected box with disc/tape/whatever) - so
>much for 'affordable/cheaper/commodity' machines!

Most companies have knocked off the SS-I, with 3 S-bus slots and monitor (see
CompuAdd, other no-namers). 

Look at what you get with the SLC vs a SparcStation I clone. Both list at
around $5,000, but the Sparclone is a better value (expandable, not fudged
in terms of RAM expansion). 

Using "true blue" and "Sun" in the same sentence is a contradiction in terms. 
Sun doesn't make IBM equipment :-)



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