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From: stan@sdba.UUCP (Stan Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: wanted: Sun 386 Workstation (Road Runner) info
Message-ID: <242@sdba.UUCP>
Date: 15 May 88 17:07:57 GMT
References: <148@gsg.UUCP> <10928@jade.BBN.COM> <226@pvab.UUCP> <10781@steinmetz.ge.com> <561@helios.toronto.edu>
Organization: S. D. Brown & Assoc.  Atlanta, Ga
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Posted: Sun May 15 13:07:57 1988

> Some people are asking "Who will buy the Sun 386i ?" In this moderately-
> sized Astronomy Department (about 22 faculty ...) we are likely to buy
> THREE right away. We have 3 Sun-3 100-series machines already, and direct
> 
	** STUFF DELTED ****

> As I've said before on a different newsgroup, the Sun 386i is competitively
> priced when compared with other 386 systems because it includes many
> features which are necessary in a distributed academic environment but
> which have to be bought separately as add-ons to "street-market" PC's.
> Furthermore, the UNIX situation for 386 PC's is messy because there are so
> many hardware "standards" (sic) which no generic offering of UNIX can

	We too are looking at buying a couple.  We are a small controls 
system engineeriing co. & do a lot of in house work on a UNIX9tm)
machine.  However we are being forced to fo more & more software
development to run on DOS target machines.  In addition we presently
us a 12 MHZ AT clone for AutoCad(tm) work.  

	The Sun's will allow us to integrate all of these diverse
needs into a networking environmet where everyone will have acess
to the latest version of all data.

	The DOS compatbilty (while retainig a _real_ -:) operating
system for our users & developers) is the key here also.


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