Re: When was the SPARC 20 introduced and discontinued?

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From: Coy Hile
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 14:45

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Kralizec Craig wrote:
> "James Sweet" <jamessweet@hotmail.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>"Dave" <nospam@nowhere.com> wrote in message news:43567331@212.67.96.135...
>>
>>>I have an SS20 and would like to put an age range on it. What is the
>>>youngest and oldest it could be?
> 
> 
>>Mid 90's
> 
> 
> Around 1993/4 was when they were first introduced and around 1999 was when
> they were dropped as a stock line. What's surprising is that the
> Sparcstation 5's with 170 Mhz Turbosparc-based system boards were sold for
> at least a year or two after Sun dropped the Sparc 20's and all the other
> versions of the Sparcstation 5.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Craig.
> 
> 

Isn't this because the ss5's were used as SSP's for the Starfires.

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