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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems

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To: Prognosticator who wrote (21839)10/27/1999 4:32:00 PM
From: Stormweaver  Read Replies (2) of 64865
 
Prog, Adaptec's AHA-3950U2 SCSI serves at 160MB/s - bus mastered. With bus bandwidth 100+MHZ and INTC motherboards supporting concurrent host,AGP,PCI to main memory transactions I don't see an i/o bottleneck ?

The price/perf of n-way x86 will make serious in-roads as an alternative to traditional more expensive n-way solutions.

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Excerpt of interest...
The ES7000, based on Intel chips and Microsoft software, will eclipse more expensive UNIX-based computers used to run large-scale e-business, by matching the performance of such machines at as little as one-fifth the price. Unisys officials took aim at Sun Microsystems Inc (Nasdaq:SUNW - news).'s E10000, currently the most popular machine for running major Web sites.

Cheers
James
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