Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!mtune!westmark!dave
From: dave@westmark.UUCP (Dave Levenson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Care to comment on the AT&T 6386?
Message-ID: <326@westmark.UUCP>
Date: 24 Dec 87 02:46:55 GMT
References: <1015@woton.UUCP>
Organization: Westmark, Inc., Warren, NJ, USA
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Keywords: AT&T 6386

In article <1015@woton.UUCP>, riddle@woton.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle ) writes:
> There have been some generic discussions of the 3B1 in this newsgroup aimed
> at people trying to decide whether or not to buy the machine, but I have yet
> to see any discussion of the 6386 for neophytes.  I know there are some 6386
> owners out there -- care to say what you think of the machine so far?  We
> are about to evaluate it on trial and would like to know what to look for. 
> 

I have used a 6386 under UNIX and under MS-DOS for several weeks.
The UNIX is a pre-release that's being beta-tested.  It is noticably
faster than the 3B-1.  Its hardware is buss-compatible with the IBM
PC-AT and with the Compaq '386 -- which means you can buy expansion
devices from a multitude of sources!  The administrative interface
(as available in the pre-release UNIX) is less user-friendly than
that provided under the User Agent of the 3B-1.  It comes with HDB
UUCP, and SYS V R 3 (and also MS-Windows).  To run UNIX, you need at
least 2 MBytes of ram, and 4 Mbytes (which fill one expansion board)
work even better.  Haven't seen the DOS-Merge yet.
-- 
Dave Levenson
Westmark, Inc.		A node for news.
Warren, NJ USA
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