Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac:50107 comp.sys.mac.programmer:12984 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!jarthur!uci-ics!ajauch From: ajauch@ics.uci.edu (Alexander Edwin Jauch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: mac emulation Message-ID: <25F558FE.3615@paris.ics.uci.edu> Date: 7 Mar 90 18:54:54 GMT References: <940@uvicctr.UVic.CA.UUCP> <1990Mar3.190730.15647@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <39182@apple.Apple.COM> <22556@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> Reply-To: ajauch@ics.uci.edu (Alexander Edwin Jauch) Distribution: usa Organization: UC Irvine Department of ICS Lines: 28 In article <22556@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu () writes: >In article <39182@apple.Apple.COM> keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin) writes: >>In article <1990Mar3.190730.15647@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> dbplass@apple-juice.UUCP (David Plass) writes: >>> >>>BTW, the news release claimed 2-3x better performance on a Sun 3/60 than a MacPlus. >>>Could this be the beginning of a mac clone market? >> >>Not if I've got to buy a $25,000 Sun 3/60. Actually, I have no idea how much >>a Sun 3/60 costs, but I'm sure that it's much more than a Mac Plus. I'll bet >>that it's also more than a Mac IIci, which runs 4-6 times faster than a >>Mac Plus. > >Well here at UF we can add a 3/60 to our net for much less than the >cost of a IIci, that is the reason that there are so few Macs here :( >Workstations *are* becoming cheap WRT high end macs and PCs. > >----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Mark Interrante Software Engineering Research Center >mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu CIS Department, University of Florida 32611 >----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >"Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end > of everything we know." Marvin Minsky How much less? Seriously, I am very interested in this. How much would a USABLE, Sun 3/60 or Sparc cost? Don't forget drives and keybards and such. Alex Jauch ajauch@bonnie.ics.uci.edu