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From: rchen@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.mach
Subject: which machine to buy?
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Date: 27 Aug 90 22:24:00 GMT
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Nf-From: m.cs.uiuc.edu!rchen    Aug 27 17:24:00 1990


We are thinking to buy another workstation (preferably a Sun)
to run Mach (hopefully 3.0).  We have a Sun-3 running Mach 2.5
right now.  However, our department doesn't want more Sun-3s
because they think Sun-3s are (going to be?) obsolete.
I know that we cannot get Mach source code for Sun SparcStations
from CMU and we have to pay $$$ to get it from Mt. Xinu.  

Now the questions are :
(1) Will Mt. Xinu support Mach3.0 later this year?
(2) Should we spend money on the software or on a different hardware?
(3) Which machine is most cost-effective* to run Mach3.0?

Any advices are greatly appreciated.

Note *: we are not a rich group and we would like all latest Mach
        software to run on the new machine.

-Ron Chen @ Department of Computer Science
            University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
            rchen@cs.uiuc.edu