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From: rjd@tiger.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Ksh availability?
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Date: Thu, 22-Oct-87 16:26:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 22 16:26:00 1987
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Nf-From: tiger.UUCP!rjd    Oct 22 15:26:00 1987


> 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' ...

  Color Monitor?  So what?  If you really need it, a color DMD can be had that
is just great for the 600.  (I guess the Sun is one of those PC-type of boxes
with a monitor wired in.)  The 600 isn't for graphics, though it can easily
accomodate you, it is for serious business applications.  NO DISK IN THE SUN???
Don't make me laugh.  The model 600 has two 147 MB disks and 4 Meg Memory in
its most basic configuration, along with capability to handle 26 users
expandable with extra serial I/O rs232 cards to 90 users and memory expandable
to 16 Meg.  Disk space expandable to around 6 Gigabytes.  3-Mips? I'll say it
again: Piddly!!  The model 600 with coprocessor is around 4 to 4.5 Mips!!
And lastly; No, system V is THE standard.  Anything else except maybe
Berzerkly is second-rate.

Randy