Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!karazm.math.uh.edu!jet From: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: A3000UX competition Keywords: Unix A3000 A3000UX NeXT Message-ID: <1990Dec1.010858.1654@lavaca.uh.edu> Date: 1 Dec 90 01:08:58 GMT References: <453@mathlab.math.ufl.EDU> Sender: nntppost@lavaca.uh.edu (NNTP Posting Service) Organization: University of Houston -- Department of Mathematics Lines: 47 Your friend is not too up on UN*X issues, so you might want to pass this along to him. In article <453@mathlab.math.ufl.EDU> adin@Math.UFL.EDU (Adin Burroughs) writes: > From: Brian Bartholomew >> I personally wouldn't want to subject myself to Sys V again, but R4 is >> supposed to be signifigantly better. S5R4 is S5R3 + BSD + other stuff... Very different than S5R3 >> about a UNIX vendor that tried to sell me a 4 Meg workstation. Just If you stay out of X, 4Mb is plenty for J. Random User. I used a 3.5Mb UN*X box for a couple of years w/o ever running into any major problems, except lack of disk space. :-) >> how bad is the performance? What CPU/clock-speed are we talking here? '030 at 25Mhz. '040 RSN (1Q91 is a rumor I heard) >> bigger drive to put bundle on. Yes, you can get X for it, but why >> would you want to? So you can use the wide selection of already written X code out there. >> SLC. The standard archetecture for net-written software today. The 3000UX should run anything the SLC does, unless the code uses SunTools for its windowing. >> Price: $3,000 + $750 = $3,750. This is with all applicable discounts >> applied. If you need fast integer, cheap unix, and nothing else, get this. (Floating point is not too bad, actually, about .75MFLOPS.) >> I fault the Commodore for non-BSDness, but then again I fault HP's and S5R4 is a superset of BSD. Get a clue. -- J. Eric Townsend Internet: jet@uh.edu Bitnet: jet@UHOU Systems Manager - University of Houston Dept. of Mathematics - (713) 749-2120 EastEnders list: eastender@karazm.math.uh.edu "This meme's for you..." --me