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From: jack@MCVAX.UUCP (Jack Jansen)
Newsgroups: mod.computers.workstations
Subject: Re: Low, Medium power Unix machine
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Date: Wed, 5-Mar-86 07:45:46 EST
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>A friend of mine has a Whitechapel MG-1.  It's got a 32032 (32x32
>coming "sometime soon") and runs 4.1bsd (4.2 is apparently in
>beta-test).  He describes it as a poor man's Sun and is very pleased
>with it.

Some corrections:
- The MG-1 has a 32016, not a 32032. This doesn't matter that much,
since the 32032 is only about 10% faster.
- We've been running 4.2 now for over 4 months, so it must be out of
beta test by now.
- poor man's sun? *poor* man's sun? *POOR* man's sun??? I wouldn't
swap mine for a room full of suns!!!
(agreed, the sun 3 has better performance than the mg-1, but the
user-interface seems to be just as lousy as that of the sun-2. The
mg-1 interface isn't perfect either, but at least it is *much*
better than what sun gives you).
--
        Jack Jansen, jack@mcvax.UUCP
        The shell is my oyster.