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- From: dj@micromuse.co.uk (DJ Walker-Morgan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: SUN Sparc-Compatible Laptops
- Message-ID: <BxyIIE.KI6@micromuse.co.uk>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 09:32:37 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.141752.146@emr1.emr.ca>
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- Organization: MicroMuse - The SPARC dudes
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- In article 146@emr1.emr.ca, craven@cg.emr.ca (Jim Craven) writes:
- >In article 20621@twg.com, "David Herron" <david@twg.com> () writes:
- >>
- >>Can we expect that a TSunami based SPARC laptop is in the works
- >>and due out sometime next spring?
- >>
- >>Seems likely to meeee...
-
- >Sun coming out with a laptop is a natural progression of their shift to
- >MIS. Clone manaufacturers are also likely, perhaps more likely, to
- >get in on the deal. Their problem is, as always, cost. Sun gets the
- >chip reasonably cheaply because they helped design it. The cost for
- >clone manufacturers is still $500 per chip I understand.
-
- Err... That's why TI advertise the MicroSPARC cost as $180 in qty?
-
- >And
- >development costs to implement Solaris 2.x on that chip will be a tad
- >:-) more expensive for cloners then for Sun.
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- Why? It's already ported......
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