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From: paula@bcsaic.UUCP (Paul Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: hardware costs, again...
Message-ID: <25859@bcsaic.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jun 90 22:28:50 GMT
References: <1990May25.004135.351@ico.isc.com> <136279@su <1990May29.031904.23465@rfengr.com>
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In article <1990May29.031904.23465@rfengr.com> rfarris@rfengr.com (Rick Farris) writes:
]In article <1990May28.193506.21864@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> terry@eesun1.eece.ksu.edu (Terry Hull) writes:
]
]> How much does the UNIX run-time, development system, TCP/IP
]> run-time and development system, NFS and X11 add to the
]> price of a '386 machine?
]
]$1,000 in th case of SCO Open Desktop.  Admittedly, it's a
]2-user license, but you can't convince me you're going to
]be running the SLC as a server...

Why not?  It would blow the doors off any 386-based server.  Sun sells
the SparcStation 1 in a server configuration with disk, but no monitor
or keyboard.  Since the SLC is basically the same CPU, it should make
a decent server for a small network.

Since this is getting a little far afield from the purpose of this
newsgroup, I think I'll just listen for a while.  (Unless someone
says something *really* outrageous!  :-)  )

Paul Allen
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