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From: benoni@ssc-vax.UUCP (Charles L Ditzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: The cost of A/ux (Sticker Shock)
Message-ID: <1702@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 24 Feb 88 04:39:40 GMT
References: <11540137@hpsmtc1.HP.COM> <430018@hpcea.CE.HP.COM> <427@sering.cwi.nl>
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In article <427@sering.cwi.nl>, frankk@cwi.nl (Frank Kuiper) writes:
> In article <430018@hpcea.CE.HP.COM> twakeman@hpcea.CE.HP.COM (Teriann Wakeman) writes:
>    > ... the MacII at list price is at the limit of my personal
>    >budget and AUX totally blows any hope away. 
> 
> I think we are missing something here. I have been reading this net for
> some years now, and I can't remember ever having seen debates on the
> possibilities of buying one's own unix-box.
Oh wait this is being discussed elsewhere...try no further than
comp.unix.xenix...

> I read many complaints that it's to[o] expensive.
The complaints have been in the vein that for the same $$ one can buy
an existing Unix workstation such as the Sun 3/[56]0.

>     "This is the first time ever, that you are even close to buying a
>      unix machine for yourself, all beit still not a cheap one ..."

Except that for the same $$ you can buy an existing workstation.

I think you do make the point which i mentioned in the comp.sys.windows
a while back.  Sun, Apple , 80[23]86 Unix implementations and NeXT *are*
making a push [whether intentionally or otherwise] to make Unix the new 
standard at the low-end[*] (PC/Workstation hybrid) (pushing MS-DOS into 
oblivion and perhaps also OS-2).  The next question is where is Mac OS going?  
I read that Sculley stated that Mac OS would get multi-tasking and the Mac 
OS would be overhauled. The effort was suppose to take three years??!??  
 
* my notion of low-end is
 1987 = 68000 80286 
 1988 = 68020 80386