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From: steve@redwood.UUCP (Steve Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Differences between a 3B5 and a 3B15
Message-ID: <1002@redwood.UUCP>
Date: 11 Apr 88 20:41:15 GMT
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Reply-To: steve@redwood.UUCP (Steve Mitchell)
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Organization: William F. Buckley University (UC Buckley)
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#Somebody once said..
#
#BEWARE!!!  If you intend to run SVR3 (unavailable for 3b15's yet
#as far as I know) you'll probably need to do another hardware upgrade.
#Evidently SVR3 requires new hardware that our upgraded 3b15's don't
#have.  Furthermore, we recently got some new 3b15's and these will
#also require hardware upgrades for SVR3 :-(
#
#We are running release 2.1.2 and this probably won't run on the
#"suitable for release 3" version of the 3b15.  Talk to AT&T
#to get the whole scoop.  You might want to wait for release 3 to
#come out before upgrading your 3b5's to save yourself some bucks.
#-- 
#Steve Losen     scl@virginia.edu
#University of Virginia Academic Computing Center

Our AT&T rep helped us fill out the PO for the upgrade last week.  
They're runnig a promo: Hardware upgrade (new cache&cc, power, and
scsi) plus software for 16K (after academic discount I think).
But, get this, source license will run 100K for the public, 55K for
the academic community.  With the co-processor (add ~14K) it will 
be a 2.2 MIP machine..

--smitch

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Steve Mitchell  (steve@CSUFresno.edu)
CATI / CSU, Fresno / Fresno, CA  93740-0115 / (209) 294-2361
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