According to sources reached by our sister paper, Unigram.X, Sun Microsystems Inc’s Tsunami Sparc boxes, due to be launched on November 10, will, as suggested, appear as the Sunergy series. Desktop Sunergy Classics will use a 50MHz Tsunami (or MicroSparc as it is now officially known, and are rated at 22.6 SPECint(92), 17.4 SPECfp(92) and around 14 MFLOPS. With from 16Mb to 96Mb of main memory, 207Mb or 424Mb disk, two Sbus slots, one serial and one parallel line, SCSI 2, 8-bit audio, Ethernet but no multiprocessing support or ISDN, the entry level model, with a 15 SuperVGA colour screen, will come in at $5,500. That looks pricey, missing both the personal computer and sub-$5,000 price points that the company has been talking about, even if it does offer more floating point performance than Intel Corp’s high-end 50MHz 80486 chip. A 16 colour model with 16Mb memory and 207Mb disk will go from $6,000 and a 19 version starts at $8,000.
