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From: irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.arch
Subject: Re: Jerry Pournelle on UNIX (From BYTE)
Keywords: dig dis !
Message-ID: <604@kuling.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jan 88 11:53:43 GMT
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Reply-To: irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden
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There are machines with UNIX in PROM!  One is from Hewlett-Packard.
The name is "HP Integral PC" and it has been on the market for several
years.  I has UNIX in ROM and includes a floppy disk drive, Inkjet
printer/plotter, mouse graphics display all in one package the size of
the now Compaq portable.  We had two and liked them so much (they're
truly professional PCs and are *much* better than IBM/PCs which we
consider to be hobby machines) that we just bought our third to
supplement our other UNIX workstations/minis.  We also bought the new
PROM from HP which includes lots of goodies.  Spectron Corp. makes SCSI
disks for the Integral PC and we've also orderer that.  This disk
mounts under the Integral PC box - very neat!

I'm surprised how ignorant many of you seem to be about products like
these, people who say they have used it don't even know the name of
it.  Why is it so?  I've also noticed that most of you are familiar
with workstations from Apollo and Sun but don't know that HP also makes
such boxes (we have several).  Is HP so much smaller on the US market
than over here in Europe or what?

I'm curious to know.

-Bo


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