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From: steve@umiacs.umd.edu
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Subject: New Sun announcements and pricing
Keywords: Hardware
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Date: 5 May 89 10:02:40 GMT
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As Steve Grandi points out, Sun is, as of the April product announcement,
the price/performance leader in the industry...  for those of you who pay
list.  I won't discuss specific discount levels here, but suffice to say
that certain universities can buy DECstation 3100s for around, if not
*under*, the price of a SPARCstation 1.

This is from the pricing rumors floating around, and could change when
SPARCstation pricing numbers firm up.  As always, your mileage may vary.

I can't wait to get in and benchmark the SPARCstation series, so I do a
pure hardware-to-hardware comparison.  Maybe next week...

	-Steve

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