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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!boole!NetCmmnd
- From: NetCmmnd@boole.uucp (System Administrator)
- Subject: Re: SPARCClassic
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.213143.1454@boole.uucp>
- Organization: Boole & Babbage, Inc.
- References: <1dpbvnINN1j5@almaak.usc.edu> <1992Nov11.075828.6425@proponent.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 21:31:43 GMT
- Lines: 51
-
- In <1992Nov11.075828.6425@proponent.com> Monty Solomon <monty%roscom@think.com> writes:
-
- >In article <1dpbvnINN1j5@almaak.usc.edu> ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
- >writes:
- >> harthc@ntmtv.UUCP (Howard Hart) writes:
- >>
- >> >Just caught the official announcement this morning. $3995 for
- >> >a 15 inch color, 200MB SPARC (Tsunami).
- >>
- >> The price is $4k "in qtys of 12+". Does that mean the list price
- >> is $4.5k or so?
- >>
- >> 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?
-
- >The SPARCclassic single-quantity price is $4,295.
-
- >The SPARCstation LX (424 MB disk; 16 MB RAM; 16-inch color monitor; GXplus
- >accelerator; CD-quality audio; ISDN) is $7,995.
-
- >Solaris 2.1 is bundled with both machines.
-
- >Both systems are rated 59.1 MIPS, 26.4 SPECint92, and 21.0 SPECfp92.
-
- >--
- ># Monty Solomon / PO Box 2486 / Framingham, MA 01701-0405
- ># monty%roscom@think.com
-
- How does a 50MHz chip achieve 59.1 MIPS?
- I thought the (never achieved without superscalar) holy grail
- of RISC design was 1 instruction per cycle. If they are getting
- better than 1 instruction per cycle on the microSPARC(tm) that is
- as exciting engineering news as the prices are business news.
-
- II
- I know that MIPS is about the sloppiest term around, but what
- can they possible mean when they use it here?
-
- John Ahlstrom
- Boole & Babbage
- 408-524-3307
-
- I can neither confirm nor deny that these questions
- are interesting or not to any one else.
-
-
- m
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