I've never heard that the 386i was successful by any metric. Most big Sun clients had a couple sitting in a storeroom because they would basically give you a c

I've never heard that the 386i was successful by any metric. Most big Sun clients had a couple sitting in a storeroom because they would basically give you a couple when you renewed maintenance to generate interest. I was at a Sun reseller at the time, and I can't recall perhaps a single significant 386i deal in the whole run of the product. But that may have just been my corner of the world and somewhere else there was a huge demand for an otherwise unremarkable i386 PC that cost 4 times more than what you could get from everyone else in the market.