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From: jerry@polygen.uucp (Jerry Shekhel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Duesseldorf: personal impression of the TT(T)
Message-ID: <546@bogart.UUCP>
Date: 14 Sep 89 18:26:08 GMT
References: <8908251936.AA19454@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <1572@laura.UUCP> <542@bogart.UUCP> <767@lzaz.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: jerry@bogart.UUCP (Jerry Shekhel)
Organization: Polygen Corporation, Waltham, MA
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In article <767@lzaz.ATT.COM> bds@lzaz.ATT.COM (B.SZABLAK) writes:
>In article <542@bogart.UUCP>, jerry@polygen.uucp (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
>: 
>: How about the Sun 3/80?  It's a 68030 box with *awesome* Unix (SunOS), a
>: great programming environment, plenty of professional applications
>: available, for around $5K without disk.  You can buy it with 8- or 24-bit
>: color if you need that.
>
>Hey! What about an 80386 system? You can get a VGA 4Mb sytem with *awesome*
>UNIX(TM) System V for less than $4K -with- disk. A 1Mb MSDOS VGA system can
>come in under $3K -with- disk.
>

Yeah, yeah, I've seen these, and I must admit, if you want Unix cheap, a
standard '386 machine is probably the cheapest way to go, considering also
that you'll be able to run OS/2 and ungodly amounts of DOS software.  I,
personally, would pay the extra grand for SunOS -- a combination of System V
and 4.3BSD.  I've worked with IBM's AIX for their '386 PS/2, and I've seen
other versions of '386 Unix.  In most cases, they don't come close to the
feel of SunOS.

And if you think VGA is sufficient for running X-Windows, think again.  I'd
much rather use Sun's 19" hi-res monochrome system.
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