Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att-cb!ihnp4!upba!qetzal!rcw
From: rcw@qetzal.UUCP (Robert C. White)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Relative Merits of 286|386 for Business (was doom & gloom)
Message-ID: <1304@qetzal.UUCP>
Date: 20 Feb 88 22:59:35 GMT
References: <1568@uhccux.UUCP> <3330@killer.UUCP>
Reply-To: rcw@qetzal.UUCP (0000-Robert C. White)
Organization: Mentor Software, Inc.
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In article <3330@killer.UUCP> elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green) writes:
>[discussion of 286|386 as a minicomputer for your business deleted]
>

I did exactly this and have no complaints (it satisfies my clients).
I use Microport Unix Sys V/AT on a clone with some other stuff,
the breakdown goes like this:

AT clone:               $1,400   (This was a year ago)
3 Meg o'memory            $600	
80 Megs of hard drive     $800
EGA  Monitor              $500
Cartridge Tape            $750
9 Track Tape            $3,500
Nec Printer             $1,000
Uport Unix/Merge          $700
                       =======
                        $9,250

I don't know what a Vax costs, but I'm sure it's much more.  I can
read from one tape drive -> process -> write to other tape drive
which makes it possible to handle larger files than I have free
disk space for.

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