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From: mickey@axis.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: UNIX machines
Message-ID: <209@axis.fr>
Date: Mon, 23-Mar-87 16:23:29 EST
Article-I.D.: axis.209
Posted: Mon Mar 23 16:23:29 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 26-Mar-87 04:22:29 EST
Organization: LERS: soon to be something else!
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Keywords: In the market for

I am shortly going to join a new company who are going to take the
plunge into the UNIX market. There first step is to buy a machine
that runs UNIX for *DEVELOPMENT*. This machine will be used by 3 or 4
people for development work (accounting applications - boring stuff eh)
I will be one of these people and thus want a decent machine. Anyone
have any useful experience of suitables m/cs. Price must be in
the range 200,000 to 300,000 French Francs (20000 to 30000 pounds sterling,
don't know the dollar rate but thats about the price of the IBM PC/RT
known as the IBM 6150 in Europe). Current candidates are the IBM RISC
m/c and a Convergent m/c but am interested in others (I am used
to VAXen abd PDPs so dont know the market using super-micros).
PS
	Replies preferred from users, if suppliers wish to send me
	info do so to my home address:-
		M. J. Dance
		36 Allee de la Banniere de Maupertuis
		Chevry II, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette
		FRANCE
	Olivetti and users of 3B machines need not reply
	(lousy performance/price ratio - just an opinion
	 based on experience, mine!)
Thanks in advance (please email me 'mickey@axis' and Ill summarise
if number of replies and quality of response justifies it)