Note on IBM announcement

[David L. Luner]

Dyer at ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) writes:
>
>The *low end* ... has 27.5 MIPS integer (SPEC) and 7.5MFLOPS
>floating point (Linpack) at 20mhz, and will sell for $13K list.

"The POWERstation 320 is rated at 7.4 MFLOPS (sustained LINPAK DP, all 
FORTRAN) and 22 SPECMARKs." The announcement letters also give Dhrystone
performance of about 48,000.

Complete SPEC and other industry benchmarks will be provided by GA 
(general availability), 2Q90.

>There is a cheaper diskless config, too.  

No diskless configuration has been announced. There was announcement of a 
statement of direction to do so.

>The low end machine is about the size of a PS/2 desktop, maybe
>just a bit bigger.  

The POWERstation 320 is about the size of an "old" AT/XT, and about an
inch taller. It includes a stand for placing the system vertically on the
floor.

	-- David

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