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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!ukma!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!socrates!ice
  3. From: ice@socrates.umd.edu (Fredrik Nyman)
  4. Subject: Re: New RISC workstations / 88110 demise
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov18.033624.6743@socrates.umd.edu>
  6. Organization: University of Maryland University College
  7. References: <1992Nov2.154050.23454@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> <1992Nov2.170741.2092@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> <1992Nov3.210551.13433@utstat.uucp> <1992Nov05.200924.147058@lexmark.com> <1992Nov16.155141.115@cuphub.cup.edu>
  8. Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 03:36:24 GMT
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  11. neubert@cuphub.cup.edu writes:
  12. >I thought I'd heard somewhere that the microSPARC processor in the
  13. >new Sun Classics and LXs was much cheaper than even a 486 chip
  14. >(in quantity, of course).  Made by TI, which was an early believer
  15. >in the pricing curve, but then lost the memory/processor wars.
  16.  
  17. Yes.  That's correct.  The TI TMS390S10 aka Tsunami aka microSPARC
  18. is $179 "in production quantities".  The Intel 486DX/50 is $502.
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