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From: Liudvikas Bukys
Date: Thu, 11 May 1989 13:27
Date: Thu, 11 May 1989 13:27
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In article <792@rex.cs.tulane.edu> mb@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Mark Benard) writes: >X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 280, message 17 of 18 >... >The 3/80 is priced at $5995 with 4 MB, with an additional 4 MB costing >$2000. That makes an 8 MB 3 MIP 3/80 just $1000 less than a 8 MB 12.5 MIP >4/60 (aka SPARCstation 1). So unless someone is out there selling 4 MB >expansion memory for the 3/80 for a lot less than $2000, it looks like the >SPARCstation is a much better deal. In fact, my most recent newsletter from Shearson-Lehman-Hutton says that SUN has told them that production costs for the 3/80 and 4/60 are the SAME, and that they expect volume production of the 4/60 ASICs to make the SPARCstation even cheaper to manufacture in the future. Reportedly, despite the pretty low price on the SPARCstation 1, their gross margins are still pretty comfortable. Liudvikas Bukys <bukys@cs.rochester.edu>
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: bukys@cs.rochester.edu (Liudvikas Bukys) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: 3/80 and 4/60 prices Keywords: Hardware Message-ID: <1989May11.092717.213@cs.rochester.edu> Date: 11 May 89 13:27:17 GMT References: <792@rex.cs.tulane.edu> Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept, Rochester, NY Lines: 18 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 294, message 10 of 16