Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!mhuxl!houxm!hogpc!houti!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sri-unix!ZELLICH@SRI-NIC.ARPA From: ZELLICH@SRI-NIC.ARPA@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.works Subject: Re: Unix Based Personal Machines (Works Digest V4 #30) Message-ID: <2029@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Sun, 15-Jul-84 23:10:37 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.2029 Posted: Sun Jul 15 23:10:37 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 20-Jul-84 03:59:13 EDT Lines: 20 From: Rich Zellich At the NCC last week, NBI was showing a nice system for $15,475, which was a 68010 running an apparently-total 4.2bsd port with a bit-mapped screen, 1 meg memory (2 meg optional), 22 (or 24?) meg Winchester, 640K floppy, and custom raster-ops processor. The bit-mapped screen was used for Star/Lisa/ MacIntosh style icons and overlapping windows; a separate process could be run in each window, and the system could also emulate a VT100 (and other terminals?) in a window connected to a mainframe while running local programs in other windows. Besides UUCP and cu, TCP/IP are also supported (as said above, apparently \all/ of 4.2 was ported). vi, ed, and ex are of course available, and I think emacs is, also. Oh yeah, the "U!" system also has a 3-button mouse. The literature, as I remember it (I haven't unpacked all the NCC stuff yet) compares the U! machine as slightly slower than a single-user VAX 11/750 and, in some cases, slightly faster than a 4-user 11/750. -Rich -------