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- From: matt@centerline.com (Matt Landau)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: How does the new 2000+MIP Sun server compare against a Cray/XMP?
- Date: 13 Nov 1992 16:57:40 GMT
- Organization: CenterLine Software, Inc.
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- In <1e0f40INN65d@milk.Warren.MENTORG.COM> tal@plts.uucp writes:
-
- >Another difference is that you can buy a Cray today.
-
- Yeah, I was pretty surprised when I read the fine print of the announcement
- and found that the 20-processor version of the SparcCenter-2000 was slated
- for delivery "2H93". In other words, Sun preannounced the high-end of the
- product line something like a year in advance.
-
- Gee, I used to work for a company whose hardware division did that with
- its new products (long before the products actually existed -- I wonder
- how many processors they've got working in the biggest *existing* version
- of the SparcCenter-2000).
-
- Now the hardware division of that company doesn't exist anymore. It's not
- that I expect Sun to fade away and close its doors or anything, but it's
- more than a little depressing to see Sun adoping the IBM/DEC strategy of
- announcing machines months or years before they are actually known to work.
-