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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!ukma!lexmark!songer
- From: songer@lexmark.com (Christopher Songer)
- Subject: Re: New SPARC Classic
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.210502.134324@lexmark.com>
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- Keywords: sun, classic, sparc
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- Organization: Lexington, KY
- References: <1992Nov12.020041.23522@socrates.umd.edu> <1992Nov12.125406.102394@lexmark.com> <1992Nov12.173445.22519@socrates.umd.edu>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 21:05:02 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov12.173445.22519@socrates.umd.edu> ice@socrates.umd.edu (Fredrik Nyman) writes:
- >
- >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. :-(
- >
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- Yes, I caught that from subseqent announcements. The published Spec
- numder mean that NeXT's hardware is toast. Next had better cough up
- something really good really fast or they could be in trouble.
-
- -Chris
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