From owner-freebsd-sparc Thu Jan 21 09:10:33 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA27808 for freebsd-sparc-outgoing; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 09:10:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from obie.softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA27796; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 09:10:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA13100; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 10:10:14 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <36A75F76.C0643A12@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 10:10:14 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Palmer CC: Paolo Di Francesco , freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: For who is interested References: <643.916912856@gjp.erols.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Gary Palmer wrote: > > > I don't know if y'all caught the notice, but Sun just dropped the > > price of the entry-level Ultra 5 to $2,495 and added 24-bit graphics > > to sweeten the deal. > > Its more than that that has changed. I believe that there are also options to > have CPUs with larger L2 caches, and the hard drive has been upgraded from the > crappy slow one in the older U5's to at least a 5400 RPM drive, if not a > 7200RPM drive. I forget all the details, I'm not really in the market much for > U5's at work :) I'm supposed to get the next one that comes out of company HQ! Yay! -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message