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- From: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: Workstation from Apple, any time soon?
- Message-ID: <D2150035.inmtrt@outpost.SF-Bay.org>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 18:49:31 GMT
- Reply-To: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
- Organization: Peirce Software
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- In article <macwhiz.720889008@gawain.cif.rochester.edu> (comp.sys.mac.hardware), macwhiz@cif.rochester.edu (Rob Levandowski) writes:
- > In <1992Nov2.214841.2010@ucbeh.san.uc.edu> yuanj@ucbeh.san.uc.edu writes:
- >
- > >Is Apple going to put out some workstations any time soon? I mean something
- > >like the Silicon Graphics Indigo, or IBM 6000.
- >
- > >I really wish they do, and as soon as possible!
- >
- > According to the November BYTE, they already do... the BYTE Labs have
- > decided that the Quadra 950 is a better personal workstation than either
- > the Iris Indigo or the IBM RS/6000 Powerstation/350.
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- I used to have a VaxStation II a few years ago. My Q900 has
- more memory (36M vs. 16m), better graphics (16" 24-bit color +
- 8-bit portrait vs. 19" monochrome), faster CPU (25MHz 68040 vs.
- microVax II), better processor bus (NuBus vs. Q-bus), better
- hard disks (240M SCSI + 210M SCSI + CD-ROM + SyQyest vs. ???about
- 100M???), a much easier access to the bus bay, and they both
- have ethernet built in. The MacOS isn't VMS, but then the Mac
- has much more "useful" programs available - and they both run
- Unix if you are of that persuasion.
-
- Sure looks like a workstation to me...
-
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