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From: sprankle@kodak.UUCP
Newsgroups: misc.wanted,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Cheap wonderful UNIX boxes
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Date: Wed, 8-Apr-87 09:46:30 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  8 09:46:30 1987
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Reply-To: sprankle@kodak.UUCP (Daniel R. Lance)
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Summary: Sun cuts price of 3/50M workstation 36% to $5K, says WSJ

For the person inquiring about cheap wonderful UNIX boxes:

Yesterday's Wall Street Journal states that Sun Microsystems has cut the
price of their 3/50M low-end workstation by 36%, to $4,995, targeting the
same markets as the new IBM Personal System/2s and Macintosh IIs.

I'm not sure what you get for your $5K; perhaps some Sun person in net land
could provide more information.  At least you get hardware and software that
have been in use, not vaporware :-).  In my mind, this is probably one of
the better "cheap wonderful UNIX boxes" around, though it's not as cheap
as an AT clone, it's built to run UNIX, not MS-DOS.

--drl
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