Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!think!ames!aurora!jaw
From: jaw@aurora.UUCP (James A. Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Sun 4/60?
Message-ID: <1685@aurora.UUCP>
Date: 7 Feb 88 23:16:32 GMT
References: <15349@beta.UUCP>
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, California
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# "anything too stupid to be said is sung." -- voltaire

of course it was just a model number inference,
ala the
 "complete this series" "intelligence" tests.
but you'll never get any advance product plan
information from sun micro technical types.
that is, they only get told codenames, like every other
computer business.  e.g. the internal codename
for the 4/110 was "cobra".  like automobile
animals, you might guess the
next one will be "python", or "anaconda" or whatever.
codenames themselves serve the additional purpose
of helping pinpoint project leaks
in a parallel development process.
the model number,
as well as the "marketing mips" gets stamped on
only at the end.