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- From: patl@bodacia.Eng.Sun.COM (Pat Lashley)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Power-up for AGA Machines! rumour.
- Date: 11 Jan 1993 01:06:56 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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- I missed the beginning of this discussion, and I'll admit to being a bit
- predjudiced, but I think that if you want RISK power in an Amiga, the best
- solution would be an M-bus adapter board. That would give you access to
- the full range of SPARC chips, with easy upgrades as new ones become availiable.
- (No further hardware development required. Software development required only
- to take advantage of new capabilities of new generation chips as the SPARC spec
- evolves.) SMCC may currently be behind on the power curve, but do you really
- think they'll stay there? And they are currently leading the price/performance
- curve with the microSPARC (aka Tsunami), which rolls most of an SS2 into a
- single chip. According to SunWorld the quantity price for the microSPARC is
- half the price of an equivalent 486...
-
- If I remember the announcement right, the SPARCclassic is a microSPARC based
- machine with 8M RAM, 400M hard disk, SCSI-2, ethernet, 8bit audio, 2 sync/async
- serial ports, a parallel port, three-button mouse, ~118 key keyboard (exactly
- how many keys depends on which contry kit you get), a dumb framebuffer that
- can drive either the sun standard 1152x800 or SVGA 1024x7?? monitor; and it's
- bundled with Solaris-2 (SVr4 based unix + X11/NeWS, etc.). With the SVGA
- monitor we're retailing it for under $4000 in quantities of 12 or more. I'll
- let you guess how much of that is profit; and how much of the rest is Solaris
- licencing, packaging, monitor, ethernet support, etc.
-
- And the SPARC would make it easy to port Solaris-2 for upwards compatability
- with the existing Amiga SVr4 unix...
-
-
- -Pat
-
-
- The Standard Disclaimer applies...
- ---
- PMLashley plashley@Sun.COM SunSoft:NeWS/TNT
- "Those who do not understand NeWS are doomed to recreate it - badly"
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