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Article #2538Re: Cheap wonderful UNIX boxes
From: sprankle
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1987 14:46
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1987 14:46
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For the person inquiring about cheap wonderful UNIX boxes:
Yesterday's Wall Street Journal states that Sun Microsystems has cut the
price of their 3/50M low-end workstation by 36%, to $4,995, targeting the
same markets as the new IBM Personal System/2s and Macintosh IIs.
I'm not sure what you get for your $5K; perhaps some Sun person in net land
could provide more information. At least you get hardware and software that
have been in use, not vaporware :-). In my mind, this is probably one of
the better "cheap wonderful UNIX boxes" around, though it's not as cheap
as an AT clone, it's built to run UNIX, not MS-DOS.
--drl
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!seismo!rochester!kodak!sprankle From: sprankle@kodak.UUCP Newsgroups: misc.wanted,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Cheap wonderful UNIX boxes Message-ID: <791@kodak.UUCP> Date: Wed, 8-Apr-87 09:46:30 EST Article-I.D.: kodak.791 Posted: Wed Apr 8 09:46:30 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Apr-87 07:34:24 EST Reply-To: sprankle@kodak.UUCP (Daniel R. Lance) Organization: Eastman Kodak Co, Rochester, NY Lines: 25 Summary: Sun cuts price of 3/50M workstation 36% to $5K, says WSJ