carnone@homxc.att.com (Christopher Arnone) (10/08/90)
I was thinking of buying a SPARCstation 330, and my questions is: Is Sun anywhere close to introducing new SPARC systems that will make the current offerings a poor choice right now with respect to price/performance. My Sun salesman tells me not to worry because Sun is very liberal about CPU upgrades. Any advice on this matter will be appreciated. Please respond via email.
zador-anthony@cs.yale.edu (Tony Zador) (11/04/90)
In article <1990Oct7.221826.25967@rice.edu> carnone@homxc.att.com (Christopher Arnone) writes: >My >Sun salesman tells me not to worry because Sun is very liberal about CPU >upgrades. In my opinion, Sun is *not* very liberal about CPU upgrades, except perhaps from one fundamentally different chip to another (eg 68020 --> SPARC). We have a 4/110 we bought 2 yrs ago that is slower than an SLC, but no upgrade is offered. Our 4/60 from last yr is slower than the 4/65 now offered, but no upgrade offered or planned. Sun has released a 4/470, and presumably will soon offer a similar 4/430, but no upgrade is offered from the 4/330. Tony Zador