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From: mckay@ea.ecn.purdue.edu (Dwight D Mckay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: The cost of A/ux (Sticker Shock)
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Date: 25 Feb 88 21:42:59 GMT
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There are cheaper ways to buy a UNIX workstation for home use then running
A/UX on a Mac II.

For example:

	A used Sun 2/120.
	Specs:
		19 ich monochrome monitor
		68010 w/3 Meg. Memory in multi-bus card cage
		two 50 Meg. disks
		1 1/4 inch cart tape drive
		6 serial ports
		keyboard and optical mouse

Four of us here purchased machines like this for about $4000 a piece.

We had considered Mac II's but even before A/UX was announced it was clear
that a Mac II equiped in a similar fashion to the above system would be far
more expensive.  As it turns out it's more that twice as expensive to get a
similar Mac II system.

Although the above system is somewhat slower then a Mac II, it's overall
performance is quite good (due in part to DMA for disk I/O).  And I have
money left over to buy more disk space or a laser printer or whatever...

--Dwight D. McKay, Moderator of Suns-at-Home mailing list