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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Sun 4/60? (actually smallerfastercheapercuter Mac II)
Message-ID: <3136@phri.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 88 17:11:20 GMT
References: <15349@beta.UUCP> <41239@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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In article <41239@sun.uucp> guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
> 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..

	Reading this, it occurs to me that in the entire progression from
the original 128K Mac to the Mac-II, the new introduced models have been
monotonicly increasing in just about any parameter you care to look at
(memory capacity, speed, price, etc).  Should be expect a change in the
future?  Of course, there has been a slow but steady decrease in list
prices of existing models, but that's not what I'm talking about.

	Sun seems to take the opposite approach; start with top-of-the-line
machines first and then undercut themselves with newer versions (like the
3/50 did to the 3/75).
-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016