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From: larrys@swcp.com (Larry Shultz)
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Subject: Re: Is SUN a viable market?
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>At 08:44 PM 4/17/96 -0700, you wrote:
>>
>> Pixar uses sun stations...and Sun stations are teh biggest chunk of the work
>>station market..and pretty damned good for price performance. This info comes
>>from a computer wizard sitting next to me.
>
>Pixar only used Suns for rendering. SPARCStations are very fast machines,
>however, and Solaris XWindows is a sweet OS. Most of the Suns I played with
>were used mostly as servers and for engineering visualization. I don't know
>how LW will be received in the Sun market, but I don't think there is
>anything like it in its price range. Man, I wish I had LW Sun back in
>school. My university, MSU, had a special arrangement with Sun and we had
>hundreds of those babies lying around (ScreamerNet!!) =8)
I used to work at a place called Sandia National Laboratories and I remember picking up something
at shipping and recieving one day and saw literally hundreds of Sun Workstations on palettes.