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SUN [06-Nov-81]

 The other terminal which is quite similar to the BBN BitGraph terminal,
 except that  it uses  a Multibus  and has  an Ethernet  interface,  was
 developed at  Stanford University  and is  known as  the SUN  terminal.
 Several companies are  gearing up  to manufacture it,  as described  in
 Electronics Magazine (20-Oct-81, p. 47).  One company we have contacted
 has quoted a price around $6K.

 Both of these MC68000-based terminals (see the BITGRAPH entry) are more
 than just  terminals;  they  are really  personal  work  stations  with
 significant computing power.  The Electronics Magazine article  claimed
 about 40% - 50% the speed  of a DEC VAX-11/780 with integer  arithmetic
 (considerably slower  for  floating-point  arithmetic  and  I/O).   The
 Motorola MC68000 supports 32-bit  data and has  a 24-bit address  space
 (16 Mbytes, just like an IBM 370).  Compilers are already available for
 FORTRAN, Pascal, and  C (the  language used  for all  the SUN  terminal
 software).