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From: cmp8157@sys.uea.ac.uk (S.M. Sowerby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Unix for the TT?
Message-ID: <1249@sys.uea.ac.uk>
Date: 3 Jun 91 12:30:41 GMT
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s37837k@saha.hut.fi (Jari Lehto) writes:

>Unix System V Release 4 is available for TT.  The package consists of
>TT 030/8 or higher (16 Mb would be quite good), harddisk bigger than
>200Mb (I'm not quite sure of this), X-Windows, TTM 194 19" MC-monitor
>and a big bunch of software and manuals.
>I don't know the exact price, but it is much lower than the NeXT Station,
>and A 3000 & Unix SVR4.
>
>Just checked, the harddisk is 200Mb, and there are also VME Ethernet network
>card, OSF/Motif, and GNU package (with C, C++ etc.).
>
>My personal opinion is that you should get a harddisk of at least 400Mb and
>minimum 16Mb of total RAM to run this Unix well enough (=fast enough).
>
>A friend of mine told me that his Unix workstation has a 1.2Gb hd and it is
>just about enough... But it has it's own nntp package and mail handler.

The information I have (from a UK magazine) is:

Standard Unix-TT :  TT030/8-210 (i.e. 8Mb RAM,210Mb hard disk) with
		    Unix 5.4, X-Windows (can't remember version no),
		    OSF/Motif, GNU package, TTM-194 19" monitor.
		      Price = $4000 US

Network Unix-TT  :  As above but with Ethernet among other comms stuff (not
	            detailed)
		      Price = $4500 US

Unix Upgrade     :  Unix, X-Windows, OSF/Motif, GNU stuff installed
		    on 210Mb hard disk.
		      Price = $1600 US 
  -This is the one I'm interested in as I currently have a TT030-8/40


	One interesting piece of software from a company called X-Software
(or something like that) was said to allow GEM programs to run within an
X-Windows window... adds the very nice feature of not needing to reboot or
come out of Unix to run standard ST/TT software.

	I'm pretty sure the prices I give were the ones quoted (magazine
is at home, not here!) but I'll check and post the correct prices if I've
got them wrong...

	Just out of interest has anybody seen any TT-specific programs out
there which really make use of the beast's power ?  I've heard about a new
art package which handles TT-low and TT-high screen resolutions but that's
about it.


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Steve Sowerby, 				    (cmp8157@s1.uea.ac.uk)
School of Information Systems,
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Norwich NR4 7TJ, England.