Why buy an LX over a Classic ?

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1 total messages Started by Alistair Borley Sun, 15 Nov 1992 22:07

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Author: Alistair Borley
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 22:07

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Note: Also posted in comp.sys.sun.hardware.

The new series of products has just been officially released in Australia.
The machines that we are interested in are the lower end SparcStation LX
and Sparc Classic. It seems that both are claimed to run at 59.1 MIPS. The
main differences are:

	o ISDN support
	o CD quality audio (single channel?)
	o Graphics accelerator
	o Classic is about half the price of the LX

If we're not doing graphics work and already have a file server, why would we
consider buying an LX over a Classic (given that the claimed MIPs rating is
the same)?

The Sparc2 is rated at 28 MIPs according to the Sun propaganda sheets we have.
This being the case, why would anyone buy a Sparc2 now instead of an LX?

Alistair
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Alistair Borley
Senior Software Engineer
ICP Group, NEC Australia
649 Springvale Rd, Mulgrave 3170, Australia

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