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From: cjeffery@cs.arizona.edu (Clinton Jeffery)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: hardware costs, again...
Message-ID: <315@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 26 May 90 03:19:44 GMT
References: <136279@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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From article <136279@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, by plocher@Eng.Sun.COM (John Plocher):
> +-- In <1990May25.004135.351@ico.isc.com> rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes
>...Some ISC guy was talking affordable X machine, and some Sun guy tried
>to plug a Sparc...

C'mon, dude, Sun won't even talk to people who need a standalone system,
qty. 1 (like, at home for instance); if they did, they'd want zillions.
Even your Sparc advertisement leaves out a lot of things (like the tape
drive required to read the tape you listed).  Anyhow, you were right
about 1 thing: X is a lot more pleasant on a 10+ mips machine.  I really
like the color Sun I use at work.  The only way I can hope to approximate
it for $5K at home is to think 486, SVGA, ESIX, assemble-it-myself...

Of course, I am VERY open-minded; if you Sun guys want to show me how I
can get a complete solution at home for $5K this summer, go for it!!!
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| Clint Jeffery, U. of Arizona Dept. of Computer Science
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