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- From: matt@centerline.com (Matt Landau)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: How does the new 2000+MIP Sun server compare against a Cray/XMP?
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 23:44:56 GMT
- Organization: CenterLine Software, Inc.
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- Okay, it's time to set the record straight.
-
- A while back I posted an article in this discussion expression dismay
- that Sun was preannouncing by almost a year the 20-CPU version of the
- SparcCenter-2000, and wondering aloud what the biggest *existing*
- version of the machine was that was actually running. (Having once
- worked for a company that preannounced hardware that no one was sure
- would *ever* work, I'm naturally chary of such business tactics.)
-
- Well, I've now heard from several people inside Sun, and although the
- reports are slightly varied, the consensus seems to be that 20-CPU models
- are, in fact, running inside Sun, and that the delay in shipping is more
- to assure reliability and tune the OS than to actually make the basic
- hardware work.
-
- Having heard this from several people, I'm more than satisfied that
- it's true, and I rescind any aspersions I might have unintentionally
- cast on Sun.
-