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From: rcte2p@menudo.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
Subject: Re: Unix for the TT?
Message-ID: <1991Jun3.194622.15834@menudo.uh.edu>
Reply-To: rcte2p@menudo.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
Organization: Univ. of Houston, College of Technology
References: <1991May31.035651.26744@news.iastate.edu> <1991May31.192058.10926@nntp.hut.fi> <1249@sys.uea.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1991 19:46:22 GMT

cmp8157@sys.uea.ac.uk (S.M. Sowerby) boldy writes in article <1249@sys.uea.ac.uk>
>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.

Much lower than a NeXT?  What, are you talking about the NeXT Color
Workstation with 32bit color?

>>
>>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

I can get a NeXTstation (mono) here with a 106M HD, 2.88M Floppy, 19"
Mono (crisp) monitor, Mach OS, X-windows, AND ethernet for $3K with my
student discount.  Now, if Atari offered a student discount, then, your
claim that the TT is "much lower" than the NeXT might be valid...

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>Steve Sowerby, 				    (cmp8157@s1.uea.ac.uk)
>School of Information Systems,
>University of East Anglia,

Btw, I am die hard Atari... just I don't like people making statements
that are not supported very well...


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