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From: roberts@studguppy.lanl.gov (Doug Roberts)
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Subject: Re: upgrade a 3/260
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In article <5638@brazos.Rice.edu> phil@wubios.wustl.edu (J. Philip Miller) writes:

   I would be interested in anyone else's  experience  and/or  opinions
   about upgrading the 3/260.

I am upgrading my 3/260 to a Solbourne 5/501. The cost to upgrade the 260
to a 32 MB 4/330 (16 MIPS) would have been ~$16,000. I chose instead to
get a 22 MIP, 4.8 MFLOP SPARC, and keep the 3/260. The cost for the
Solbourne (16 MB, diskless, w/o monitor) was $18,500. If we later feel the
need, we can buy another CPU for it and make it a 40 MIPS server. The
Solbourne seems to be 100% Sun SPARC binary compatible. 

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