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Subject: Re: Cheap wonderful UNIX boxes (summary)
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Larry Campbell's otherwise excellent summary of options for "cheap
wonderful Unix boxes" overlooks one small but significant point.  He rejects,
for his purposes, "baby timesharing systems" because they are "not
workstations". It seems to me that the two ideas are not mutually
exclusive, if the baby has high-speed communications capability.
Convergent 680x0 machines, for example, have an option for 1 megabaud RS-422.
(This is option is standard in older CT boxes.)  If one could find
the right inexpensive graphics terminal that will speak to the baby,
one has one's workstation.

Of course, I could be right in an absolute sense and quite wrong in a
practical sense:  for example, does all the necessary software for
such a configuration exist?

This is beside the point, but I have to get it in:  a 7300, which Campbell
*does* consider a workstation, is just a Convergent MiniFrame
with a built-in terminal and some AT&T comm hardware.