[SunRescue] What Gem did I find?

[Peter L. Wargo]

> 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.
> 
> 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???

O.K., you don't remember what an IPC went for back in the early 90's, huh?

Really, the only sparc system slower than an IPC is the original SS1,
unless you include stuff like the 4/110.

Essentially, at the time, "low end" Sun workstations still cost a buttload
of $$...

-Pete