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From: madd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,misc.headlines,misc.jobs.misc,talk.rumors
Subject: Re: Doom and Gloom, as they say, revisited (computer market failures)
Message-ID: <19908@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 15 Feb 88 19:10:54 GMT
References: <1903@saturn.ucsc.edu> <1568@uhccux.UUCP>
Reply-To: madd@bu-it.bu.edu (Jim Frost)
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In article <1568@uhccux.UUCP> lee@uhccux.UUCP (Greg Lee) writes:
>From article <1903@saturn.ucsc.edu>, by fiatlux@ucscc.UCSC.EDU (David Vangerov):
>+ ...
>+ I might point out that a lot of bussinesses are realizing that
>+ you can turn a 286 or 386 box into a very nice mini system with
>+ little cost in relation to what a mini system from DEC or Sun
>+ might cost.
>A "lot less"?  It would be interesting if you would post the details
>of the cost comparison you made.

This brings up an interesting point that most people miss.  The cost
of an 80386 machine is very comparable to the cost of a similarly
configured Sun 3/50.  Performance wise they're pretty close, too, but
in terms of software reliability the Sun UNIX is somewhat better than
Xenix or Microport.

jim frost
madd@bu-it.bu.edu