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To: Mike Milde who wrote (15946)	4/29/1999 3:06:00 PM
From: Stormweaver	Respond to of 64865

Buying anything in bulk gives discounts including PC's. Your telling me Sun can afford to chop it's price by 40% on it's workstations and still make money ? If management was smart they'd be cutting some of those margins now to try and sell more iron and become direct competition for PC's ??

To: Mike Milde who wrote (15946)	4/29/1999 3:14:00 PM
From: Stormweaver	Respond to of 64865

Basic SpecInt/SpecFP comparisons : Intel/Compaq-DEC/Sun. The Digital chips kick butt completely + it gives you the option of running UNIX, NT or VMS; even runs x86 binaries natively on the alpha (opcode conversion on the fly). Intel/Sparc trade off between SpecInt and SpecFP. Ultra-sparc 360 SPECINT95 SPECFP95 single 13 18.3 dual 13 23.5 (source sun.com) Intel single 350 14.9 11.4 single 400 16.9 12.8 single 450 18.5 13.3 (source intel.com) Compaq Digital single 21164 500 MHZ 125 148 single 21164 600 MHZ 147 165 (source www.digital.com)