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From: jwhitnel@csi.UUCP (Jerry Whitnell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AMIX?
Message-ID: <1486@csib.csi.UUCP>
Date: 22 Apr 88 18:34:06 GMT
References: <466@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> <863@gethen.UUCP> <391@brambo.UUCP> <49800@sun.uucp> <396@brambo.UUCP> <50356@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: jwhitnel@csib.UUCP (Jerry Whitnell)
Organization: Communications Solutions Inc., San Jose, Ca
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Keywords: Amiga AMIX Unix

In article <50356@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
>In article <49800@sun.uucp> I wrote :
>In article <396@brambo.UUCP> (Morgan W. Jones) replied:
>> For under $4000 (this is accurate as far as I know) you could run a
>> 386 clone with full SysV.
>
>Ok folks, I may get flamed for this but hey what's life for anyway.
>The problem comes when we get down to brass tacks and define what
>a "workstation" is. In my lexicon a workstation has 4 megabytes of
>memory, 1M pixels (optionally in color), 80Meg+ of disk space, UNIX*
>in some form or another, and a window system in system in some form or
>another. Ideally, it also has built in networking.
>
>Intel took the initiative to build this exact beast, given the parts
>they made and some of the parts that others made, and came up with a
>'386 box with 4 meg of ram, running System V and X11, with an 80Meg
>drive, and a Blit board and nice 1K x 1K monochrome monitor. Guess
>what? It cost *them* $8,192 , you and me it would cost $11,264 - $12,288
>dollars.

Intel should shoot their parts suppliers (and somebody should should Intel :-).
Just reading adds in MicroTimes I come up with:

    21 mhz 386 clone w/ 1mb  $1,995
    19" Mono                 $1,895
    80 MB hard disk          $  839
    3 mb of memory           $  600 (approximate quess as noone quotes prices)
    System V                 $  799 (Microport from the Programmer's connection)
    X/11                     Free
			     ------
    Total                    $6,128

I just saved $2,000 without really trying.  Of course I don't get a single
orginization like sun supporting me, but it might be worth $2000 to take
my chances.  If you are willing to settle for 800x600 you can drop over
$1000 from the price of the monitor.  All prices except Microport come
from the March 88 issue of MicroTimes.  Of course, I havn't put this
beast together to see if it all flies together... :-).


>--Chuck McManis


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