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- From: paulr@fulcrum.oz.au (Paul Rosham)
- Subject: Re: Disturbing News about Printing Under Solaris 2.1
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.235353.14049@fulcrum.oz.au>
- Organization: The Fulcrum Consulting Group
- References: <kzin.722200524@cc.gatech.edu> <102626@bu.edu> <1992Nov21.081101.1876@ukw.uucp> <1992Nov22.150831.4568@ra.msstate.edu>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 23:53:53 GMT
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- fwp@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters) writes:
-
- >I get a strong impression of confusion within Sun. I get the impression
- >that most of Sun expected the transition to be a gradual migration pushed
- >throughout 1993. The Viking multiprocessors were to be a reasonable
- >carrot to encourage sites to make the move.
-
- Pardon? You thought that there would be no major workstation announcement
- from Sun this year? From the "world's leading workstation vendor"?
-
- >Then SMCC went and introduced several more new machines in the low end
- >and the high end and the whole thing got more rushed.
-
- SPARCcenter 200 was in development for about 3 years. The low end, figure a
- good 18 months. Just for the hardware and tooling. The software isn't more
- than 6 months behind schedule.
-
- -PaulR.
-