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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems
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To: Pierre who wrote (8760)4/3/1998 1:06:00 AM
From: Scott McPeely  Read Replies (1) of 64865
 
By defintion a NC performs local processing. So by saying "just get
the real work off loaded to a server - a Unix server" means you want
to see terminals and not NC's.

The problem here at Sun is that we cannot deliver a
desktop-workstation combo that is competitive to Wintel. Thus, we are
unable to expand the market for unix servers outside its core
strengths.

Look at what they say about our workstations in comp.unix.solaris:

> we just received a few Ultra-10 machines which are equipped
> with 21-inch monitors and the standard PGX graphic chip.
> We are _very_ disappointed with the resulting display quality,
> which, IMO, is inferior to far less expensive PC displays.
>
> This seems to be an issue of video signal quality: edges between
> black and white are not sharp, but are smeared out to the right,
> which gives dark text on white background a fuzzy and "dirty" look.
> This is not the monitor's fault, because the monitor gives an
> excellent picture when hooked to a Sparc-5.

I'm glad it's not just me. I too had noticed this - exactly the same
effect on our new Ultra-5.

Not only that, it automatically came up at 1152x900x66 rather than
1280x1024x76. m64config seemed to fix that up, but it still seems to
be flickering at 66Hz when not running an X server (and you can still
see the shadows on the text).
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