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From: sl@van-bc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Cheap boxes & sanity
Message-ID: <571@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-Apr-87 02:40:17 EST
Article-I.D.: van-bc.571
Posted: Mon Apr  6 02:40:17 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 9-Apr-87 03:28:20 EST
References: <6656@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Organization: Public Access Network, Vancouver, BC.
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In article <6656@brl-adm.ARPA> EDWIN%TAMODP.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.EDU writes:
>Secondly, IBM PC's running Unix offer the best price/performance I
>know of. A 10 Mhz AT clone with a 70 MB hard disk and Unix can be
>bought for about $3000. For around $5000 one can get an 80386 machine,

You can build up an ICM-3216 based system with 70MB hard disk, 4MB RAM for
round about $3500. 

And it will run circles around your 10Mhz AT. I've used both, there's no
comparison. My main complaint about the AT was the first job runs fine, but
as soon as you try and do two things, it really slows down.

The ICM system has a very nice Demand Paged Virtual Memory, FPU, MMU etc. It
even runs circles around the 68010 system I'm using right now. Mainly
because of the DPVM.

I'm just waiting for Seagates new 160MB SCSI drive, which sources say will
come in at around $1600 wholesale. 


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Stuart Lynne	ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vision!van-bc!sl     Vancouver,BC,604-937-7532