[comp.sys.sun] New Sun Workstations?

liao@venera.isi.edu (Yingsha Liao) (11/02/90)

There is a rumor that Sun is coming out with a new workstation soon.  I
need to know more about it. Anyone has any information? I would like more
information on how different it is from Sparcstation 1+. Is it true, or is
it simply a rumor? 

thanks in advance,
yingsha

v087mxgb@ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu (11/19/90)

In article <1990Nov2.002507.10655@rice.edu>, liao@venera.isi.edu (Yingsha Liao) writes...
>There is a rumor that Sun is coming out with a new workstation soon.  I
>need to know more about it. Anyone has any information? I would like more
>information on how different it is from Sparcstation 1+. Is it true, or is
>it simply a rumor? 

Yes, it is true!!  I met with Pat Mcloughlin (my sun rep here in Buffalo),
& he gave me a spec sheet on the new Sparc 2 !!!  Basically, it is
replacing the 1+ (with about the same base price, I understand, of around
$16,000).

It is 28 MIPS
400+ Mb hard drive
16 Meg RAM standard
GX graphics accelerator standard

Sounds great to me!

(28.5 MIPS 4.2 Mflops 21 SPECmarks, to be exact)

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