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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!ntmtv!harthc
- From: harthc@ntmtv.UUCP (Howard Hart)
- Subject: Re: SPARCClassic
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.194322.27955@ntmtv>
- Sender: harthc@ntmtv (Howard Hart)
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- Organization: Northern Telecom Inc, Mountain View, CA
- References: <1992Nov10.205448.3802@ntmtv> <1dpbvnINN1j5@almaak.usc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 19:43:22 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- In article <1dpbvnINN1j5@almaak.usc.edu>, ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:
- |> harthc@ntmtv.UUCP (Howard Hart) writes:
- |>
- |> 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).
- |>
-
- They're listing at $4.3K in qtys of 1. Who knows how they'll play
- the academic market. Probably at least as cheap as the qty
- discount, maybe even cheaper.
-
- |> 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?)
- |>
-
- They didn't say anything about mono in their product announcement.
- The 15" screen is 1024x768 (could even be a NEC, for all I know).
- Sounds like they're going head-to-head against the Intel 486 market.
-
- |> Is Solaris 2 now standard with all these systems?
- |>
-
- Only run Solaris 2.x. Our internal tools developers are still
- avoiding the question, but it only stands to reason that
- Sun was going to push everyone onto Solaris whether they liked
- it or not--it was just a matter of time. I guessed 6 months
- from the intro--wasn't far off. It's going to be a hard sell
- to management to continue to buy ELC's at twice the price just
- to support internal software. I'm sure we're not the only outfit
- in the same boat.
-
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