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From: ark@alice.UUCP
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Subject: Re: The Unix-pc!
Message-ID: <7007@alice.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 19-Jun-87 23:03:33 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 19 23:03:33 1987
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In article <3980@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>, mic@lapis.berkeley.edu.UUCP writes:
> I have been following the discussion about the sale of the century for the
> UNIX-PC.  It is very interesting ($800 hardware, $700 software rigth?), but
> nobody has yet answered my questions.  Let me repeat them.  Any words of 
> wisdom can be shared on the net as the volume is low in this newsground 
> anyhow, and I am never able to send thank you notes by e-mail as my
> mailman doesn't recognise half the destinations (as any good mailman in real
> life by the way).
> Questions:
> 1) Hardware:  For $800, is the monitor included, color or monochrome?  
> Is the mouse included?  
> Keyboard?  

A monochrome (green) monitor, keyboard, and mouse are ordinarily included.

> What is the chip at the heart of the machine?
> How fast is it?  How fast can it run with Unix slowing it up?  

Motorola 68010.  Don't know clock rate; about as fast as a VAX 780
but only softare floating point.

> Is the machine powerfull enough to carry the weigth of Unix?  

Yes.

> What is the speed of the hard- disk?  

Dunno.  Depends on the disk you get.

> Is the 1 Meg ram the limit on the model 7300... 

No.  You can buy a 2 meg expansion board.  I think there's
a total limit of 4 meg but 2.5 is the largest I've personally used.

> Are the 3B1 models different that the very handsome 7300 
> (i.e. are they the same box or do they consists of bigger clanky boxes)?  

Same cabinet, more memory.  Basically not much difference.

> Is there a compatibility card that allows running MSDOS?  

Yes.  The card has an 8086, 512K of memory, and a socket for an 8087.
The compatibility card also has a serial port.

> I heard the Modem is included?  Is it Hayes compatible?

Yes and no, respectively.

> 2) Software: Is the software to run the modem included?

Yes, including uucp and mail.

> Is the famouns SimulTask included?

No, it's not relevant to the 7300.

> In the$700  of software that is deemed essential, is there a version of
> the vi editor included, and what about  f77  and troff??  

Yes, no, and no, respectively.  Vi is in the optional "utilities" package,
as is nroff.  I don't think troff is available.

> Does it take an eternity to boot it up, and do you have to leave it 
> on all the time, or can you just shut it off every now and then like 
> the DOS boxes??

It takes a few minutes to boot.  You can shut it down but you should
ask it to stop processes, etc. first.