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- From: keves@meaddata.com (Brian Keves)
- Newsgroups: misc.forsale.computers.workstation
- Subject: Re: Complete SparcStation IPC forsale!!!!
- Date: 13 Nov 1992 17:20:06 GMT
- Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton Ohio
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- In article <1992Nov13.020904.14944@samba.oit.unc.edu> robinson@med.unc.edu (Gerard A. Robinson) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov12.222927.11390@PacBell.COM> tlhouns@ns.pacbell.com (Lee Hounshell) writes:
- >>Brian Keves (keves@meaddata.com) wrote:
- >>: No one suggested the obvious. Unless you are upgrading to a SPARC 10,
- >>: why not keep the IPC and just upgrade its board to a SPARC 2?
- >>
- >>That's probably Jon's best bet.. But why upgrade to a SPARC 2, when
- >>the SPARClassic at $4295 is a faster (or at least equivalent) machine?
- >>I think I read somewhere where Sun was providing an upgrade path for
- >>older SPARC's to the SPARClassic. Here are Sun's benchmarks:
- >
- >1) The IPC is physically different than the SS2, no board swap is available
- > that'll fit in its cabinet.
-
- This is what I meant. I tend to term everything in the same compute class as
- with the same name.
-
- > but at a lower price. This may make the board swap upgrade from IPC->IPX
- > a little more attractive, although it wouldn't have GXplus and ISDN. *BUT*
- > the IPC is also upgradeable to a SPARCstation LX for $5,995 list, category
- > A discountable. This upgrade includes a 424MB HD and the external speaker
- > box. You ship back the IPC chassis with its 8MB RAM and 207MB HD.
-
- But you do get GX on board, so the IPC to IPX speedup is impressive.
-
- Brian
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