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From: wrp@krebs.acc.virginia.edu (Wm Pearson)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Sun vs. 3B2 (was: Ksh availabil
Message-ID: <269@krebs.acc.virginia.edu>
Date: Fri, 6-Nov-87 20:16:06 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  6 20:16:06 1987
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In article <147000008@tiger.UUCP> rjd@tiger.UUCP writes:
>I agree on one point: for personal use a 3B2 is overkill, I
>would rather buy a PC for home use.  

I don't know about these $35,000 3b/600's, but I consider the 3b2/310
(a little closer to $10,000) underkill for personal use, even with a
70 Mbyte hard disk add-on.  The thing to remember when evalating claims
for 3b machines is that you have to divide the capacity in number of
users by 10 to get a figure that compares with an IBM-PC, Xenix-AT, VAX,
or whatever.  So if ATT has a $35,000 machine that is supposed to support
30 users, it's really a 3 user machine, and you would still be better off
with a small sun (and you get job control).

Bill Pearson
wrp@virginia

A 3b2/310 was worth $15,000 when a VAX11/780 was worth $300,000.