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Re: mac emulation

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From: Alexander Edwin Jauch
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 1990 18:54
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In article <22556@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu () writes:
>In article <39182@apple.Apple.COM> keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin) writes:
>>In article <1990Mar3.190730.15647@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> dbplass@apple-juice.UUCP (David Plass) writes:
>>>
>>>BTW, the news release claimed 2-3x better performance on a Sun 3/60 than a MacPlus.
>>>Could this be the beginning of a mac clone market?
>>
>>Not if I've got to buy a $25,000 Sun 3/60. Actually, I have no idea how much
>>a Sun 3/60 costs, but I'm sure that it's much more than a Mac Plus. I'll bet
>>that it's also more than a Mac IIci, which runs 4-6 times faster than a
>>Mac Plus.
>
>Well here at UF we can add a 3/60 to our net for much less than the
>cost of a IIci,  that is the reason that there are so few Macs here :(
>Workstations *are* becoming cheap WRT high end macs and PCs.
>
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Mark Interrante   		Software Engineering Research Center
>mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu		CIS Department, University of Florida 32611
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>"Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end
> of everything we know."  Marvin Minsky

How much less?  Seriously, I am very interested in this.  How much would a
USABLE, Sun 3/60 or Sparc cost?  Don't forget drives and keybards and such.

Alex Jauch
ajauch@bonnie.ics.uci.edu
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From: ajauch@ics.uci.edu (Alexander Edwin Jauch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: mac emulation
Message-ID: <25F558FE.3615@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Date: 7 Mar 90 18:54:54 GMT
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