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From: earle@jplopto.uucp (Greg Earle)
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Subject: 3B2's and avoiding flame wars
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Date: Wed, 21-Oct-87 06:54:54 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 21 06:54:54 1987
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In article <147000004@tiger.UUCP> rjd@tiger.UUCP writes:
>>>   So buy a 3B2!!!  You need one anyway!!
>> Hate to burst your bubble, but if I had the $10,000 for a 3b2, there is a
>> whole host of other machines in that price range which provide more bang for
>> the buck, with a better version of Unix, too (Pet Peeve #123123). Ain't no way
>> that the poor old WE CPU in the 3b2 is gonna keep up with no 16mhz 
>> 68020... 
> Piddly 16 Mhz?  Guess you missed the model 600 announcement (not to mention
> the capabilities with the coprocessor option).  Better version of Unix???
> You're cracked.  Maybe not $10,000, but still better for the money.

Oh good grief.*  A 3-MIPS Sun-3/60 with 16" color monitor retails for $9900
sans disk.  If like a lot of places you get 20% or 30% educational discount,
this knocks it down to $7K or $8K; add a 3rd party SCSI disk & tape and you
might have nudged past the $10K mark in cost, but you've blasted past the 3B2
in capability (and general wonderfulness).  And color besides.  "You're
cracked."?  Don't make me laugh; `System V - consider it sub-standard' ...

Since this has nothing to do with binaries vs. source from the AT&T Toolchest,
and is veering dangerously towards rehashing the `Small Cheap UNIX boxes?'
discussion of late, followups redirected to comp.misc and out of sources.d.

(*"Oh good grief" may or may not be a trademark of Guy Harris.)

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