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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AMIX?
Message-ID: <1922@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 88 22:25:17 GMT
References: <466@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> <863@gethen.UUCP> <391@brambo.UUCP> <607@flatline.UUCP>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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In article <607@flatline.UUCP>, erict@flatline.UUCP (eric townsend) writes:
> In article <1917@sugar.UUCP>, peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
> | And the other point is that individuals shouldn't have to pay the price of a
> | small car for a decent UNIX system.

> You don't.  Buy a fire sale 7300 or 3b1. :-)  Actually, buy a used system
> from somebody who bought fire-sale priced equipment.

The 3b1 is a perfectly decent machine, unfortunately it's also not being
manufactured.  UNIX and Windows seperately are available for well under
2 grand for a base system... but due to relentless upsizing in workstations
you still can't get them together for under 10 grand. You should be able to
get a Sun-1 class machine for 2 grand today, but nobody's making them.

If the Sun-1 was acceptable in 1984, why shouldn't it be acceptable in 1988?
The sort of PC most people are using is still decades behind it.

Hell, the sort of machine most PC owners are stuck with is still decades
behind a PDP-11 running 5th Edition.
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