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Subject: Small school workstations - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 5-Oct-83 22:37:58 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  5 22:37:58 1983
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uiuccsb!grunwald    Oct  5 17:48:00 1983

  What with all the recent discussion about machines, I'd like to ask a
question I heard over another network.

  A small school has about $100,000 to spend on new equipment for a small
C.S. department. They're interested in a UNIX environment, but don't want
to spend the money for a VAX. They don't really want to get a PDP-11
because it's so memory limited.

  They're looking at small workstations, since they feel that this provides
an exapandable resource. In particular, they've been thinking of an HP-9000
or two. It's not clear that graphics is a high-priority item for them.
  Does anyone out there have any recommendations for them as far as companies
to look into? I pointed them towards Sun, but I was hoping that someone out
there might have a good reliable company for them to look into.


Spoken	: Dirk Grunwald
	  University of Illinois
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