OH YEA??? [was: Re: [rescue] Ultra?]

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Sat Aug 3 11:29:36 CDT 2002


On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 06:10:43AM -0400, Michael Schiller wrote:

> 3. quality of construction. The U1's were made when Sun still cared
> about the quality of their machines. The U5 & U10's were built using
> cheaper parts that are more on line with home PCs than Unix
> workstations. I've owned U5's U10's, and U1's, so I know how the cases
> are built.

And note that the price of a U5 purchased from the sun web site when
it first came out was pretty competative with the price of a PC.  What
was it again, $899?

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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