Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!flatline!erict
From: erict@flatline.UUCP (eric townsend)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AMIX?
Message-ID: <270@flatline.UUCP>
Date: 23 Apr 88 04:22:06 GMT
References: <466@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> <863@gethen.UUCP> <391@brambo.UUCP> <396@brambo.UUCP>
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Keywords: Cheap workstations (was: Amiga AMIX Unix
Summary: I guess 3b1/7300's don't count?

In article <49800@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
>IF IT WAS 
>POSSIBLE TO MAKE A DISKFULL UNIX WORKSTATION FOR < $8K TODAY WE WOULD! 

So I guess my AT&T 3b1 w/ Unix Sys V 3.0 (3.51 now available) w/ 3.5Mb RAM,
67Mb HD, etc etc  isn't a unix workstation?  At my last place of work,
we developed C code for both unix and dos on 3b1's.  Think about it.
Developing on a semi-kludge like the 3b1 for a MS-DOS abortion.  Poetic,
somehow.

Seriously, with 3b1's as low as they are, I think a great buy would be
an Amiga 500 and a full-blown 3b1 with Sys V 3.51; and just use
the Amiga as a multi-tasking games machine/graphics terminal to the 3b1.
I'll probably get flamed for *that* suggestion. :-)

> >--Chuck McManis
-- 
Anytime a computer company needs the entire cast of "MASH" to sell it's
newest product line; it's time to take a serious, critical look at that
product line. -- Me.
J. Eric Townsend ->uunet!nuchat!flatline!erict smail:511Parker#2,Hstn,Tx,77007