Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!wuarchive!psuvax1!news From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: AMIGAstation... Message-ID: <*jcHqcp@cs.psu.edu> Date: 10 May 91 15:08:59 GMT References: <1991Feb12.053906.10441@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> <1991Feb16.062147.24843@NCoast.ORG> <1991Feb16.180604.10623@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> <1991Feb16.203857.29907@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Organization: Penn State Computer Science Lines: 15 In-Reply-To: cs326ag@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu's message of 16 Feb 91 20:38:57 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: sunws5.sys.cs.psu.edu In article <1991Feb16.203857.29907@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> cs326ag@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Loren J. Rittle) writes: Varun Mitroo writes: > Sun must have done something right to have such a huge installed base. > Marketing hype can only go so far. SPARCstations are at least twice as fast > as the 3000UX. OK, now I'm interested - just how big is the >huge< installed base Sun has. Is it over 2 million. I think not! How many Amigas are out there MINUS the A500? Sun is the standard in workstations. They shipped more than twice as many machines as their nearest competitor last quarter. -Mike