Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!bilby.cs.uwa.oz.au!kowari!kim From: kim@bilby.cs.uwa.oz.au (Kim Shearer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga,aus.sun-works Subject: Re: Amiga 3000UX & Sparc Message-ID: Date: 22 Mar 91 13:26:21 GMT References: <2533@otc.otca.oz> <1991Mar21.191653.26209@sat.com> Organization: Dept. Computer Science, University of Western Australia. Lines: 35 In <1991Mar21.191653.26209@sat.com> farren@sat.com (Michael J. Farren) writes: >alexk@otc.otca.oz.au writes: >>I'm looking for for a solution to this problem: >> >>The cheapest box running a "standard" Unix, X11 (and a good ~1000x900 >>display), and capable of compiling Gnu applications without too much >>modification. >I'd go for a 3000UX with the Hedley monitor, myself. >>An Amiga would need an bigger display (expensive) and disk space? >A2024 monitor isn't all THAT expensive. And disk is getting cheap - how >about 1Gbyte for ~$1500? (Rumor heard this morning - might not be true.) >>SLC's have SunOS4.x standard and 1100x900 100dpi screen, 8MB (you need more), >>X11; that's about US$6000 (SunOS5.0 probably will be SYSVR4) >Might not be a bad choice - but watch out for gotchas. For example, just >how easy is it to add disk space (the basic SLC is diskless)? On the older >Suns, it wasn't hard, but you had to get a "shoebox", not just a disk. >Little price increments sneak up on you fast! >>But it seems that it would be hard to match on these goals. >Depends on your goals. The Suns are nice little boxes, to be sure - but >for the low end, I think the A3000UX still is a win. It isn't everything, >but it's nicely balanced. I would hardly say that 16 Mb of memory and 400 Mb of disk is "low end". I am currently using an SLC with its standard 8 Mb and have no problems. If the monitor isnt all that expansive give us an idea.