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- From: aad@siemens.com (Anthony Datri)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: Re: Customers and Vendors (Was sun and customers)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.054814.19967@siemens.com>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 05:48:14 GMT
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- >However, SPARC based systems were much faster; customers preferred them 10 or 20
- >to 1.
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- I have to believe that this was deliberate: The 3/80 runs at a whopping 20mhz,
- and faster chips were widely available.
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- >The 68040 might have made a difference had it been available;
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- Just using a faster 68030 would have made a difference. The 3/80 ended up
- being comparable to the 3/60 by way of using a low clock rate.
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