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From: ron@vsedev.UUCP
Newsgroups: misc.wanted,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Cheap wonderful UNIX boxes (summary)
Message-ID: <499@vsedev.VSE.COM>
Date: Sun, 29-Mar-87 00:52:40 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 29 00:52:40 1987
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In article <885@maynard.BSW.COM> campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell) writes:
>A little while back I requested suggestions on a cheap wonderful UNIX
>box.  Briefly, I wondered why there were $10,000 Sun workstations,
>$3,000 PC/AT clones, and not much in between, for decent personal
>UNIX computes.
>
>Well, I've been flooded with responses, and the net result seems to be
>that the box I want doesn't exist.  Hardware vendors -- there does seem
>to be a market hole here.  Listen up!
>

Isn't this just great! :-(  It seems that there really is an
astounding gap in the UNIX micro market.... What a shame!

I know there are plenty of engineers, including myself, that would like
to have the functional capability of say a Sun workstation, maybe
without *all* the bells and whistles, at a reasonable _personal_computer_ 
price.

I was in the same situation but finally decided to bite the bullet and
buy an AT clone on which I originally ran Xenix V, am now running
Microport UNIX V/AT, but would *really* like to run 4.xBSD UNIX.

Unfortunately I couldn't stretch my budget much beyond $7-8K.  I know
that if I had gone another $2K I could have bought a Sun, but how much
Sun would I really have gotten for $10K... not much I suspect.

I hope that with the introduction of 386 machines, some of the
software vendors will come up with a way to make these boxes into
real-unix-workstations, (eg, port X-windows, BSD sockets, maybe
4.3BSD UNIX itself, etc...).

Until such time I guess I will have to dream on..

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