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From: aaa@mtunh.UUCP (Aaron Akman)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Problems with the 7300
Message-ID: <446@mtunh.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 14-May-85 10:20:59 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 14 10:20:59 1985
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I have been using the AT&T UNIX PC for 4 months now, and I have yet to be
dissapointed:

1.  I have been able to do serious development work on the UNIX PC (where
serious development work means dozens of source files and complicated makes),

2.  I have been able to hook myself into a "uucp" network so that I can do
file transfer, print spooling, and mail to remote UNIX sites.

3.  I regularly call my own workstation from remote locations and login.

4.  I will soon be getting Microsoft Word for my word processing
applications.

AT&T doesn't claim that the UNIX PC will be faster than a speeding
bullet with 1/2 Meg . . . but it certainly works.

I happen to also be an MS-DOS user . . . and no one told me that in
order to get MS-DOS to run fast enough to satisfy my needs that I would
need to upgrade from 128K to 1/2 Meg and buy a RAMDISK program.
Sure, it works with 128K, but try using the Lattice "C" compiler, or
work with a large 1-2-3 spreadsheet . . . .

If turbo-speed is what you want, try a 20 Meg UNIX PC with 1 Meg of RAM.
My system never thrashes, the disk is almost never being accessed if I
am not exec-ing a program or if it isn't doing a "sync".

Aaron Akman

(These are my views, not my employer's)