Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mstan!jordan
From: jordan@Morgan.COM (Jordan Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Purchase of new A/UX Machine
Message-ID: <1877@s5.Morgan.COM>
Date: 8 Oct 90 14:49:55 GMT
References: <27724@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Organization: Morgan Stanley, & Co., Inc. / New York City, NY
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Peter Steinauer <peter@boulder.Colorado.EDU> writes:

	[ wants an A/UX mac on the cheap ]

Do it incrementally.  It may cost you more in the long run, but you'll
have a functional machine sooner.  Get a used MacII.  You can get these
for at least $1k cheaper than any of the current models, and it's quite
adequate for A/UX.  $2k.  Buy Virtual with the PMMU, since that seems
the cheapest way to get one (unless the MacII you buy already has
one).  It's about $170 mail order.  Get more memory.  If it has 1Mb,
throw it away and get 8Mb for about $325 ($39 x 8?).  Get A/UX for
about $700, find a friend who has instaled before and get them to do it
for you instead of buying manuals.  Buy her dinner.  $30.  Get a 105Mb
disk for about $600.  Buy it as an external and buy your own case, put
it together yourself.  Cheaper that way.  Sell your Plus for about
$800, unless there's a hard disk too, in which case adjust
accordingly.  $3k total.

I put all of the X11R4 distribution (binary -- you won't have room for
source) plus gcc, g++, and emacs in about 30Mb.  105Mb should be fine
for now.  Maybe you'll have a 40Mb internal already from the MacII.
That can house your current Mac stuff.  You can also cut down on the
number of fonts you have and the X clients you want to run.  Get rid of
lots of stuff on the A/UX disk that you won't use -- yet.

Later, upgrade to an FX (since you have a II, not a cx or a ci), add
more disk, bring back manual pages, maybe even buy some manuals.  Take
your time and your budget won't notice as much.

/jordan