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From: cs111olg@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU (Oleg Kiselev)
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Subject: Re: Low, Medium power Unix machine
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Date: Thu, 6-Mar-86 03:00:39 EST
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In article <8603022205.AA04303@bu-cs.ARPA> you write:
>Could/Would you send me some opinions on the UNIX PC.  I am about
>ready to get a machine, but have not yet decided if I want to get a
>UNIX machine or a MS-DOS(PC-DOS) machine.
>
>Thanks!
One description : it is S----L----O----W!!!!!! And The ones I've seen
(and played with) were *N*O*I*S*Y*!!!!! (Two fans humming away, a
hard disk making grinding noises all the time [ swapping?])...

With hardware it might have been just those few units I've seen, but
that would not account for some particularlu UGLY window interface
and particularly SLOW window operations. Also, I *TRIED* to run a WP
program on it (Microsoft WORD??? It was there on hard disk). I was
typing ahead up to 10 characters -- they would appear on the screen
in bursts, and every operation took over a second - you could hear
the drive start grinding more furiously (while it was looking for the
page???). Now, it could have been the memory size....

My advise to you : benchmark and generally run side by side the UNIX
PC (AT&T 7300 PC) and AT&T's AT clone (AT&T 6300+ PC). See which one
performs better. Or just get SUN-3!!! (I have seen it advertised for
<$9,000 with 40MByte drive and full UNIX 4.2BSD here on UCLA campus)

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DISCLAMER: The opinions expressed above do not necessarily reflect
those of UCLA or it's emloyees and faculty. The might not even be
mine for all I know...
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