New sun?

[Andrew Patrick]

In article <8903302300.AA03975 at cobra.mitre.org> gfr at cobra.mitre.org 
(Glenn Roberts) writes:
>> I have been hearing all sorts of things about a new sun PC like machine.
>> In fact, even BYTE has heard of it.  It is billed as a "next killer" by
>> some, and very low priced by others.  So if anybody knows anything about
>> this new machine, I would appreciate information on it.
>
>Could you be referring to the Sun 386i?  Introduced about a year ago this
>machine is based on the 80386 chip and runs both DOS and Unix applications
>in the SunView environment.  It has been written up in Byte (was on the
>cover about 4-6 months ago) and is frequently discussed in Sun-Spots
>digest.

I think the articles have been referring to Sun's new RISC machine, the
SPARCstation 1.  The press release I received (dated April 18) states that
this machine runs at 20 megahertz to produce 12.5 MIPS (1.4 MFLOPS), with
a footprint smaller than a PC.  The machine supports internal hard drives
(2), a 3.5 inch floopy (DOS compatible), digital audio (in and out), 2
serial ports, Ethernet, SCSI.  There will also be an optional DOS emulator
and graphics accelerator.  The SPARCstation 1 uses a new bus (the SBus)
and has 3 3 X 5" expansion slots.

Base price for 17" mono, diskless, 8MB RAM is (unofficially) $12,800CDN.


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