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Date: Fri, 16-Jan-87 11:27:42 EST
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From: stefan@wheaton.UUCP (Stefan Brandle)
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Subject: Re: Flavours of uVAX...
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Date: 16 Jan 87 16:27:41 GMT
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In article <8701121722.AA01258@columbia.edu> ajacobs%cunixc@columbia.edu (Adam Jacobs) writes:
>
>   We will soon be purchasing a UNIX box or workstation of some sort, for
>use in mathematics research and LISP/C development. One of the more attractive
>options (because of local compatibility, etc.) is the DEC uVAX processor.
>It appears that there are a number of different sorts of uVAX (or at least
>a number of different names for them) which have gotten me a bit confused.
>Could anyone enumerate or describe the versions of low-end (i.e. low-cost
>configurations of) uVAXen?
>

I'm not the person to describe this, but if you are after "low-cost", you
certainly don't want to buy most of you memory, hard disks, etc from DEC.
Third party stuff is often as good (or better) and costs much less.

This is especially true for memory and hard disks.


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