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From: davidsen@steinmetz.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Intel Microprocessors (fair benchmarking)
Message-ID: <7180@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Sep-87 11:22:04 EDT
Article-I.D.: steinmet.7180
Posted: Tue Sep  1 11:22:04 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 3-Sep-87 01:44:18 EDT
References: <4381@intelca.UUCP> <416@aucs.UUCP> <7145@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> <701@rmi.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <701@rmi.UUCP> rmohr@rmi.UUCP (Rupert Mohr) writes:
|In article <7145@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
|[...]
|: don't match. For many things the 80386 is better because it's so much
|: cheaper as a package. The <$3000 AT style machines will run Xenix/386
|: and still stay under $5k for hardware and software for a "personal
|: machine" sized system with 2-3MB memory and a few serial ports for uucp.
|[...]
|       ... and e.g. e SUN 3/50 with 4 MB(w/o) HD < $ 5000
|	   140 MB HD/60MB Streamer               < $ 2500
|incl. fortran, pascal, c, windowing, tcp/ip, ethernet .....
|So "other" workstation come to a reasonable price class..

This does not appear to be quite true. The price includes a "right to
use" license. Average users do not have an ethernet tap from which to
download their software. It also does not include the manuals, and
update service.

If you are at a site which has lots of Suns on an enet, the prices are
correct. For people who have to buy software and manuals, I believe
you're off by about $1500 at least. Sun is quite possibly the cheapest
major brand BSD system, but it quite pricy for a personal UNIX system,
which, I believe, was the original question.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me