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- From: psanders@everest.srd.bt.co.uk (Paul Sanders)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: SPARCClassic
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.091530.3715@srd.bt.co.uk>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 09:15:30 GMT
- References: <1dpbvnINN1j5@almaak.usc.edu>
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- From article <1dpbvnINN1j5@almaak.usc.edu>, by ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah):
- > harthc@ntmtv.UUCP (Howard Hart) writes:
- >
- >>Just caught the official announcement this morning. $3995 for
- >>a 15 inch color, 200MB SPARC (Tsunami). Did I just hear
- >>a collective heart attack at Intel and Microsoft?
- >
- > I'm a bit puzzled (only read wall street jnl so far).
- >
- > The price is $4k "in qtys of 12+". Does that mean the list price
- > is $4.5k or so? What would the academic price be? ($4k with 40% off
- > would be quite attractive at $2400).
- >
- > I don't like the 15" color screen -- would have far preferred a bigger
- > mono screen. I do nothing with colour :-(
- > Is there a 17+" mono option to replace the 15"? (Is the ELC still
- > what it used to be?)
- >
- > Is Solaris 2 now standard with all these systems?
-
- At a pre-announcement briefing I attended we were told that the new machines
- would ship with Solaris 2.1 and, furthermore, would be incapable of running
- 4.1.x.
-
- Paul.
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- Paul Sanders psanders@srd.bt.co.uk Tel: +44 473 645716
- Software Research, BT Laboratories, Martlesham Heath IPSWICH IP5 7RE
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