Not bad for the SPARC considering it was introduced at around $25,000. Of course, by 1998 it was only as powerful as a dual processor Pentium Pro. I think the RAM maxed out at 512MB though.
I'd often sit down and write papers at a SPARC IPX in the computer lab because nobody else knew what they were doing. It was a pretty slow computer, but the windows PCs were all on Win 3.1 at the time and that was pretty annoying. You had to boot the PC from scratch each time, while the IPX was ready to go. Anyone else remember Pitt's computing evironment around 1996?
