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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.m68k,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: The New Chips
Message-ID: <1458@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 18 Feb 88 04:15:09 GMT
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Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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... davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) writes:
> 	Current price for a small 80386 UNIX system is about $4k
> for 2MB memory, UNIX runtime and C, 40MB hard drive, mono
> display. I was unable to find a 68020 based system with a
> similar configuration which is available for less than ~$5600 to
> the end user. I didn't count discounts on either type of
> machine.

It's not UNIX, but it's at least a real operating system (as opposed to a
glorified file server like MS-DOS: you can get a 68020 (and soon a 68030)
Amiga system for significantly less than that. And you get pretty good
PC graphics even by today's standards.

> 	The 80386 allows running MS-DOS programs under UNIX. No
> matter what your opinion of MS-DOS, there is a lot of good,
> cheap, software available for it, and many people would rather
> have the option than not. Witness that there are DOS cards for
> the Amiga, ATT 7300, Sun, etc.

There's also a lot of good, cheap, software for the Amiga out there that
doesn't have to run in an emulation mode. And, as you said, if you really
need it you can get it.

Personally, I don't miss it.
-- 
-- Peter da Silva  `-_-'  ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter
-- Disclaimer: These U aren't mere opinions... these are *values*.