Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!geoff@moss.ATT.COM
From: geoff@moss.ATT.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: ibm 386 clone / UNIX operating system
Message-ID: <22745@clyde.ATT.COM>
Date: 4 Mar 88 17:33:36 GMT
Sender: lda@clyde.ATT.COM
Reply-To: geoff@clyde.ATT.COM (Geoff Sherwood)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany NJ
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I am in the market for a 386 machine running UNIX.  I hope this issue has
not been beaten to death already, but I would like some recommendations.
In the latest computer shopper a company called Sunnyvale Memories has
a complete 20 MHz EGA system with 48 MB hard disk, 1 Meg memory, and
a color monitor.  Memory is upgradable to 10 or 18 Meg, I don't recall
which (2Mb on motherboard, 8 or 16 Meg expansion board).  All of this for
$2875 (well, when I called them they said that the price had gone up to
$3100 because of a temporary hike in the price of 256k DRAMs and would come
back down in around a month and a half).  This seemed to be far in away
the best deal on a 386 clone, but I am leery of a company I have never
heard of before (especially when sending >$3000).  Anybody out there with
any words good or bad about Sunnyvale Memories?  Any other clones?

Secondly, I need to purchase a UNIX operating system running System V r2 or r3.
The only one I am familiar with at all is Microport's SysVr3.  I have to port
code back and forth between a VAX running SysVr2 and an AT&T UNIXPC also
running that version, so a BSD system would probably give me more headaches
than it is worth.  Microport wants about $750 (something like that) for the
full development system which is reasonable as long as things work well.  I
saw a reference to some article which blasted Microport, but I am not
familiar with the article.  Any comments or recommendations?

Many thanks to anyone who can give me any information on either the computer
or the operating system.

	geoff sherwood
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