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- From: lippke@frog.utdallas.edu (David Lippke)
- Subject: Re: SPARC clones
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 22:10:45 GMT
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- In article <SCHULTZ.92Dec31214731@halley.est.3m.com>, schultz@halley.est.3m.com (John C. Schultz) writes:
- |> Since there has been some bandwidth on the net about clones I thought I would
- |> review my experiences with SuperWorkstation clones.
-
- We purchased 5 of SuperWorkstation's 50MHZ SS2 clones as soon as they were
- available and, other than a quickly corrected problem with the mice,
- they've been running flawlessly with all benchmarks demonstrating that
- we are actually obtaining the 50/40 improvement in speed over regular
- SS2s.
- We ordered these machines with CG3 framebuffers, keyboards, and mice -- but
- with no RAM and no disks. There've been no compatibility problems at the
- subcomponent level either. Their keyboards, mice, and CG3 framebuffers
- work fine on Sun(tm) SS2s and vice versa.
-
- Our observations about the hardware closely parallel John's, tho. The boards
- are very clean, but the chassis leave something to be desired. This latter
- was of no consequence to us, however, since we're using them all in server
- applications.
-
- At this point, we plan to buy more of them.
-
- Regards,
- David Lippke
- 214-690-2632
- lippke@utdallas.edu
-
- p.s. And the mice are great! :-)
-