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From: benoni@ssc-vax.UUCP (Charles L Ditzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: A/UX cost
Keywords: A/UX Unix
Message-ID: <1674@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 14 Feb 88 07:23:36 GMT
References: <1406@csib.csi.UUCP> <2489@tekig4.TEK.COM> <22966@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: Boeing Aerospace Corp., Seattle WA
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In article <22966@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster) writes:
> In article <2489@tekig4.TEK.COM> bradn@tekig4.UUCP (Bradford Needham) writes:
> >In article <1406@csib.csi.UUCP> jwhitnel@csib.UUCP (Jerry Whitnell) writes:
> >>A/UX... comes preconfigured on either an internal ($4,879)
> >>or an external ($5,549) ... upgrade package....
> >Haven't they priced Sun's lately?
> I have. a Sun 3/60 is roughly the same price as a Mac II. You get the Unix
> for free, but it comes on a tape. So, you need to buy a tape drive. You
> can't do anything with it unless you also buy a disk. Conclusion:
> $ for Sun 3/60+disk+tape+unix > $ for MacII + disk + unix.

$ for Sun 3/60+disk+tape+unix > $ for MacII + disk + unix.

is basically but deceptively a correct statement.

With the Sun you get 
	+ a 60 Megabyte streaming backup tape drive
	+ high resolution (1152x1900 or 1600 x 1280)
	+ built-in ethernet
	+ DMA

i think if you tacked on the first three on the Mac the statement would
no longer be true (ergo - from a hardware sense the SUN is a much 
better buy) ... especially when you start to consider the lack of
DMA on the Mac. 


> Of course if you are buying two copies of the hardware, the Sun becomes
> cheaper because they can each share the tape drive and system software
> over their built-in ethernet. 
Even more so. agreed.
> 
> But by the time you've bought decent desktop
> publishing, word processing, spreadsheet, and database software the Mac IIs
> are cheaper again.

i don't know i can get university ingres, sc (or vc) for free.