New Sun products

[Steve Sutphen]

What I heard about the announcement is that it will take place on April
11&12 and will include some 26 new products.  I can only guess that the
announcement is being spread over two days as there are likely two major
product areas -- industrial/business and educational.  It certainly seems
rather late to me for this announcement as some of the items were supposed
to be announced last Fall.

On a related question - has anyone taken the plunge and put a socket into
the space next to the 68020 chip in a Sun 3/60 and tried to make it run
with a 68030 CPU?  I heard that the pads were installed for testing the
`30 chips as they were just being announced when the 3/60 was being put to
bed.

	steve at cs.ualberta.ca

[[ On another related note:  before discussing as-yet unannounced products
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