Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!abvax!iccgcc!herrickd From: herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: OS cost component of workstation Message-ID: <1918.273a73c1@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> Date: 9 Nov 90 14:15:44 GMT References: <2176@lupine.NCD.COM> <42310@mips.mips.COM> <3686@skye.ed.ac.uk> <1990Nov1.234831.2066@ico.isc.com> <3699@skye.ed.ac.uk> <2840@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <2859@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Lines: 26 In article <2859@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>, davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes: > I want to see a full featured UNIX at prices anyone can afford, and to > say that you can live without the luxuries is true, but a bit frugal for > my taste. > -- > bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) > The Twin Peaks Halloween costume: stark naked in a body bag Bill, you said that you are trying to spec a system that will let us have a reasonable cost Unix system. I have already spent too much on a computer and am living with msdos. Could you post the pieces as you find them? Especially the software pieces? I want to convert it to unix with minimum money, and reasonable effort. I have to at least be able to move files from DOS systems (to preserve what I have and to continue to communicate with other systems). Being able to execute DOS programs in the unix environment would be nice, but not crucial. Can you reveal to us the parts of your goal that you have found? dan herrick dlh Performance Marketing POBox 1419 Mentor Ohio 44061 (216)974-9637 herrickd@astro.pc.ab.com