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From: SYSBDES@TCSVM.BITNET (Dan Smith)
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Subject: Low, Medium power Unix machine
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Date: Thu, 27-Feb-86 15:57:00 EST
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     I'm currently looking around for a unix machine to do software
development work on.  I have priced some of the stride systems and
have looked at the IBM-RT (gasp!! overpriced!!)  As far as I can tell
the Stride 440 with 40MB disk and 1MB of memory should do the trick
for me but I would like to see if any other systems exist in the 4K
to 6K price range (hardware & basic software) which have given people
good service.

     I would prefer a 680x0 or a 32xxxx processor machine and the
load would be at most 2 users (i.e. 4-6 user processes).  Question:
is my estimate of hardware realistic to give reasonible performance
with unix I don't have any firsthand experence balancing the
performance/hardware considerations for a unix system, but I have
seen many times that if you can swing it feed the machine memory till
it bulges.  Also from the software end of things, who has a good
system 5 port in the given price range without any nasty quirks or
undocumented 'features'.  As far as I can tell Stride has been doing
a good job in both the hardware and software arena for several years
and still seem to give a lot of bang/buck.  Comments and curses are
welcome.

                     Dan Smith (aka MadMan)
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