ekrell@ulysses.att.com (05/06/90)
The New York Times reported today (Saturday 5/5) that Sun will announce on
May 15th a SPARC machine that lists for under $5,000. The article said
the machine would have no drives, so I take it it won't have a SCSI bus,
and probably no SBus as well.
What's not clear from the article is whether this is just an X terminal or
a diskless machine that can run SunOS.
Eduardo Krell AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ
UUCP: {att,decvax,ucbvax}!ulysses!ekrell Internet: ekrell@ulysses.att.comrmk@snowhit.att.com (05/06/90)
> The New York Times reported today (Saturday 5/5) that Sun will announce on > May 15th a SPARC machine that lists for under $5,000. The article said > the machine would have no drives, so I take it it won't have a SCSI bus, > and probably no SBus as well. Our Sun account manager has leaked to me that this machine is diskless, but does have a SCSI connector. He described it as having the motherboard of the 4/60 inside the monitor's case. Only monochrome, initially. He did rule out it being an X terminal. Sun deals in distributed processing so they won't enter this market. It will be interesting to see what it's capabilities are. Richard Kurtz (816)995-3204 rmk@snowhit.att.com
pjg@acsu.buffalo.edu (Paul Graham) (05/07/90)
rmk@snowhit.att.com writes: [ekrell mentions the little sparc (4/xx)] |> a SPARC machine that lists for under $5,000. |> . . . no drives, so I take it it won't have a SCSI bus |Our Sun account manager has leaked to me that this machine is diskless, |but does have a SCSI connector. He described it as having the motherboard |of the 4/60 inside the monitor's case. Hmmm, a tight fit I'd think. |It will be interesting to see what it's capabilities are. One assumes you mean intriguing versus novel. Sun had a sales meeting last Wed-Thur in New Jersey for our region (upstate New York). We didn't get much new information but we did get a quotation. What I find most interesting is hearing about the shops that already have a truckload of the new stuff. It definitely leads me to believe that 99% of leaks aren't leaks.