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- From: billp@Syntex.COM (Bill Putney)
- Subject: Re: SPARCClassic vs. 486
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.000716.20813@synseer.Syntex.COM>
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- Organization: Syntex U.S.A. - Palo Alto, CA
- References: <BxLvG1.C44@pgroup.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 00:07:16 GMT
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- In article C44@pgroup.com, lfm@pgroup.com (Larry Meadows) writes:
- >I agree that the prices are competitive between sparc and 486 systems,
- >but I think the dearth of user-level software is still a problem. Does
- >anyone have info on cost of things like Lotus, Microsoft Word (if available),
- >accounting software, etc. for sparcs vs. PCs.
- >
- >Of course, Macs are better anyway :-).
- >--
- >Larry Meadows The Portland Group
- >lfm@pgroup.com
-
- On the software I have found (Lotus 123, WordPerfect, ...) software vendors
- are pricing it very close to their windows prices. The additional benefit
- is that some are now supporting the license server so that you only need to
- buy the number of licenses that will be in simultaneous use. Of course if
- you're using this at home that may not be as big a drawing card.
-
- The other item for consideration is that if you think you're going to want to
- use Windows NT ("... may be almost as good as unix.") when (if) it gets here
- there are noises being made that it is taylored to run on fast '586 and RICS
- (Sparc) systems.
-
- - Bill
-
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