Re: New SPARC Classic

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From: Fredrik Nyman
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 17:34

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songer@lexmark.com (Christopher Songer) writes:

>(Fredrik Nyman) writes:
>>
>>I hope NeXT will announce new hardware *soon*.  Sun has already
>>announced that they will switch to Display PostScript, and once they
>>do, the SparcClassic will become *very* attractive for DTP since it
>>will offer almost twice the power of a NSTC for half the price *and*
>>upgradeability.
>>

>Are you sure about this one? What kind of SPARC do they have in
>there to give twice the performance? I agree with half the price,
>but I'm not so sure about the twice the performance part. The 
>name "classic" appeneded on the end make me think of the onld
>Sparc 1's which are quite a bit slower than the turboes.
It uses a Tsunami SPARC chip at 50 MHz.  CPU performance is virtually
equivalent to the SPARCStation 2, so yes, I stand by my above assertion
that the SSC will have roughly twice the CPU performance of NSTC for
roughly half the price. :-(

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From: ice@socrates.umd.edu (Fredrik Nyman)
Subject: Re: New SPARC Classic
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Keywords: sun, classic, sparc
Organization: University of Maryland University College
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