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From: berger@datacube.UUCP (Bob Berger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid
Subject: Re:  Pyramid RAM
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Date: Thu, 23-Apr-87 20:54:05 EDT
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Posted: Thu Apr 23 20:54:05 1987
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>From mirror!mit-eddie!@EDDIE.MIT.EDU:bake@ee.UCLA.EDU Thu Apr 23 20:06:32 1987
>$12,000 for 4 Meg?!  Let's see, a 4 Meg, 1.5 MIP Sun 3/50 now goes for
>under $5k list... 
>
>Anyone in Pyramid marketing looked at the price of their competition lately?
>
>Rich Baker  (bake@ee.ucla.edu)
>
Exactly my point.  And that is what has happend here at Datacube. For the
price of a 4Meg memory card from pyramid, we can have 3 Sun 3/50's and some
change left over (we are a Sun OEM).

Once you start putting Sun diskless nodes on, you want good sun servers and
it reduces the need even more for the Pyramid!

I like Pyramid, our 90x has served us faithfully for 3 years. I still 
recommend it highly for folks who need lots of tty ports for lots of
simultaneous users, but I think Pyramid is loosing its competative edge
in terms of pricing.  They are gouging their customer base.

				Bob Berger 

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