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From: guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Sun 4/60?
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Date: 7 Feb 88 09:11:35 GMT
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Keywords: Anybody heard if one's coming?

> A previous article in this group inferred that a Sun 4/60 (diskless,
> one-board SPARC workstation) may be in the pipe. Anybody else heard
> rumors?

1) @Begin(Pedantry) The article would have *implied*, not *inferred*, that such
a machine was in the pipeline.  @End(Pedantry) In fact, it didn't necessarily
imply that; all it said was that the author was "waiting for the cut-price
4/60".  This could have meant that he was waiting for such a beast to come
along, under the assumption that it would, someday, not that he knew such a
beast was in the pipe and that he was waiting for that particular machine.

2) *I've* not heard any rumors about a cheaper "4/60".  This doesn't mean there
isn't such a machine in the pipeline, although I'd say it means it's less
likely to be in the pipeline.  This also doesn't mean there is no intention of
ever coming out with such a machine, of course; unless we go out of business,
there will presumably be smallerfastercheapercuter Sun-4s at some point in the
future, as there will presumably be smallerfastercheapercuter VAXstations,
DNxxxx'es, Mac IIs, etc., etc., etc..
	Guy Harris
	{ihnp4, decvax, seismo, decwrl, ...}!sun!guy
	guy@sun.com