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From: phssra@mathcs.emory.edu (Scott R. Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: "Sparc"intosh???
Keywords: Sun Microsystems, Sparc chips, infringement
Message-ID: <3871@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
Date: 2 Apr 89 15:18:52 GMT
References: <7461@thorin.cs.unc.edu>
Reply-To: phssra@emory.UUCP (Scott Robert Anderson)
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Organization: Department of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta
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In article <7461@thorin.cs.unc.edu> markham@rho.cs.unc.edu (Andrew Markham) writes:
>In one of my many computer publications (I think it was Byte), I saw an
>article regarding a machine that was to be produced by Sun or HP or someone
>that was supposed to blow the doors off any PC for essentially the same
>price.  I also heard the name was to be "Sparc"intosh.  Now, I don't know if
>it is me or not, but I don't think that Apple will let that name roll off of
>the assembly lines.

With a name involving "SPARC", you can be pretty sure they are talking about
Sun Microsystems, since that is the name of the RISC chip they use.  According
to an article in the current MacWeek, they are planning to come out with two
new lines of low-price workstations (~$5000) based on the 25 MHz 68030 and
SPARC.  I seriously doubt if they will be using the name "SPARCintosh"; the
article said they will be named the Sun 3/80 and the SPARCstation 1,
respectively.  The former will be about 3 MIPS, the latter 12 MIPS.

>I also read that the machine was not PC or Mac compatible(as if it could).
>If so, how in the hell will it survive?  I know that Amiga's are still alive,
>but can anymore like that survive?

It is a unix-based machine with a window system built on top.  Believe me, it
will have no problem surviving, whatsoever (Sun Microsystems is one of the
fastest-growing computer companies around).

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