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From: Jinfu@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Price cut for DN4000 (and new PUB ?)
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Date: 27 Apr 88 05:32:21 GMT
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Just saw this in this week's InfoWorld (April 25):

Apollo Slashes Series 4000 Pirces by 35%

........The steepest reduction was 35% for the mono system, bringing
the machine down to $8,990 (diskless?); the color configuration was
cut 26% to $13,990. Apollo also introduced a $3,500 floating-point
accelerator board, based on Weitek's 3164 floating-point processor
chip, that can boost speed by up to 300 percent.

I have some questions.

1) With this price cut (bravo!), will there be a new PUB program to 
   reflect this so we can upgrade all existing nodes to DN4000 sooner?

2) Is the 300 percent speed improvement by the new floating-point
   chip measured in general task or only in floating-point intensive
   task? From what I understand this upgrade will only be available for 
   DN4000 series (DN30X0 use a board for FPU instead of 68881), correct 
   me if I am wrong. Also how soon will it be available?

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Jinfu Chen
Motorola, Inc.

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