[SunRescue] What Gem did I find?

[James Lockwood]

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Ken Hansen wrote:

> Just curious, but why couldn't they just build an IPC or IPX into the
> SPARCPrinter? Where I used to work they would simply take an IPC/IPX,
> fill it with RAM (IIRC) and shove the printer interface card in the box
> and go from there.

Cost, cost, and cost.
 
> Actually, the printer only used a fraction of the "power" of these
> workstations, so a lesser system could have been included - this would
> have added about $1K??? 

At the time the SPARCprinter was released, a modestly configured IPX ran
about $9k.  This was considered the bargain of the year.  RAM was pushing
$40/MB.

-James