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Article #735Price of new machines
From: Mr J L Saunders
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:58
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:58
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Having just seen the new Sparcstation LX advertised in this month's Byte for
about 7000 dollars, I hope Acorn will be coming up with something really good.
The LX does 59 mips, has a very nice hi-res display, and SCSI and ISDN are
built in.
I can't remember the rest of the details as I don't have the mag. with me. For
the expected 3500 quid price tag, Acorn had better come up with something
really mean. As the Sparc architechture can be easily upgraded to a
multi-processor machine, I would expect the Acorn to have a similar option.
I know all this is expecting a lot, but maybe when the new machine comes out
Acorn should follow Sun's example by setting a standard and licencing it out to
third parties. That way hopefully we'll get some cheap, good quality machines
that really compete with the rest of the workstation industry.
Cheers,
Jason
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Jason L Saunders [ RouE ]
email: maupb@csv.warwick.ac.uk
snail: Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pipex!warwick!warwick!not-for-mail From: maupb@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr J L Saunders) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech Subject: Price of new machines Date: 21 Jan 1993 17:58:14 -0000 Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK Lines: 22 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1jmo7mINN7k6@violet.csv.warwick.ac.uk> References: <6677@falcon.ukc.ac.uk> <1993Jan19.123023.15432@infodev.cam.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.csv.warwick.ac.uk Keywords: Acorn, Sun, mips, workstation.