New Sun announcements and pricing

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steve at umiacs.umd.edu writes:
> As Steve Grandi points out, Sun is, as of the April product announcement,
> the price/performance leader in the industry...  for those of you who pay
> list.

If the MIPS claimed by SUN for this series are the same kind of MIPS
quoted for the first (SPARC-based) SUN 4, then the only price/performance
lead SUN has is in its marketing.

> I won't discuss specific discount levels here, but suffice to say
> that certain universities can buy DECstation 3100s for around, if not
> *under*, the price of a SPARCstation 1.

Why not ?  Did you have to sign a non-disclosure agreement to get a price
list ? :-)

  greg pavlov, fstrf, amherst, ny