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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!ntmtv!harthc
- From: harthc@ntmtv.UUCP (Howard Hart)
- Subject: Re: Sparc 10's are 10BASE-T
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.015139.5668@ntmtv>
- Sender: harthc@ntmtv (Howard Hart)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: nmtvs249
- Organization: Northern Telecom Inc, Mountain View, CA
- References: <1992Nov19.003959.6608@news2.cis.umn.edu> <jstewart.722147880@cunews> <1992Nov19.211710.18256@ntmtv> <1992Nov20.101844@siisun.epfl.ch>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 01:51:39 GMT
- Lines: 29
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- In article <1992Nov20.101844@siisun.epfl.ch>, brossard@siisun.epfl.ch (Alain Brossard EPFL-SIC/SII) writes:
- |> In article <1992Nov19.211710.18256@ntmtv>, harthc@ntmtv.UUCP (Howard Hart) writes:
- |> |> Congratulations are only in order when the vendor forewarns you. Sun
- |> |> didn't and as far as I know still doesn't tell any customers about
- |> |> the 10Base-T only connection (unless you specifically ask them).
- |>
- |> Let's not generalize, it might be that YOUR vendor is incompetent
- |> or careless, it doesn't mean that Sun in general failed to warn
- |> its customers. Or it could be that since it is clearly written in the glossy
- |> they thought you were old enough to check or whatever.
- |>
-
- Sorry, I stand corrected. Customers in Europe shouldn't worry. Customers
- in California and some other parts of the US should (I talked with
- other sites around the Bay Area--no one I know of was informed,
- which covers multiple sales regions and sales Reps).
-
- |> Quoting from the Sparc 10 Specifications sheet (glossy brochure):
-
- We've got a SPARC 10 in house and 60 SPARCClassics on the way. I have
- yet to see a sales brochure or specification sheet (other than
- what came in the SPARC 10 box). Sounds like we should buy our
- SPARCs in Europe :-).
-
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