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From: larry@GEOWHIZ.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Low, Medium power Unix machine
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Date: Sun, 9-Mar-86 19:26:16 EST
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In article <510480039-17273-cs111olg@PEGASUS.LOCUS.UCLA.EDU> you write:
>In article <8603022205.AA04303@bu-cs.ARPA> you write:
>>Could/Would you send me some opinions on the UNIX PC.  I am about

>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?])...

Ummm, I'm a little confused here.  Are you refering to the AT&T 7300?
If so, you're dead wrong.  The 10 meg disk is slow, the terminal is
slow, true.  But I've used one with an 86meg disk (ST506) and a
Zenith h29 terminal (19.2Kbaud) and it runs like a bat out of hell.
Somewhere between a 750 and a 780.  The cpu benchmarks passed around
bear this out, it rates with a Sun-2, a masscomp 500, and above AT's.
Not surprising as they all run 68010's.

There are a couple of problems though.

1) They didn't bring out the drive select lines so you can only put
   one hard disk on it.

2) No job control. No job control, no job control, no job control,
   how I miss job control!  Ah, well, I'll just give up hacking :-}
Larry McVoy
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