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- From: ice@socrates.umd.edu (Fredrik Nyman)
- Subject: Re: New SPARC Classic
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.173445.22519@socrates.umd.edu>
- Keywords: sun, classic, sparc
- Organization: University of Maryland University College
- References: <1992Nov11.071304.16768@tetrasoft.com> <1992Nov11.230438.21819@reed.edu> <1992Nov12.020041.23522@socrates.umd.edu> <1992Nov12.125406.102394@lexmark.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 17:34:45 GMT
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- songer@lexmark.com (Christopher Songer) writes:
-
- >(Fredrik Nyman) writes:
- >>
- >>I hope NeXT will announce new hardware *soon*. Sun has already
- >>announced that they will switch to Display PostScript, and once they
- >>do, the SparcClassic will become *very* attractive for DTP since it
- >>will offer almost twice the power of a NSTC for half the price *and*
- >>upgradeability.
- >>
-
- >Are you sure about this one? What kind of SPARC do they have in
- >there to give twice the performance? I agree with half the price,
- >but I'm not so sure about the twice the performance part. The
- >name "classic" appeneded on the end make me think of the onld
- >Sparc 1's which are quite a bit slower than the turboes.
- It uses a Tsunami SPARC chip at 50 MHz. CPU performance is virtually
- equivalent to the SPARCStation 2, so yes, I stand by my above assertion
- that the SSC will have roughly twice the CPU performance of NSTC for
- roughly half the price. :-(
-