Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cme-durer!brickman
From: brickman@cme-durer.ARPA (Jonathan E. Brickman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for a cheap 4.3 Unix box...
Message-ID: <606@rtg.cme-durer.ARPA>
Date: 25 Aug 88 17:02:41 GMT
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Reply-To: brickman@rtg (Jonathan E. Brickman)
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In article <6831@potomac.ads.com> jtn@potomac.ads.com (John T. Nelson) writes:
>I'm sortof kindof thinking about buying a cheap Unix box.
>	1) Bitmapped screen
>	2) MUST run 4.3 Berkeley (none of this system V junk).
>	3) Inexpensive (and built to stay thatway)

The least expensive graphics-oriented Unix box with any 4.3 BSD
compatibility that I've heard of is the Mac II.  A/UX is System V
-based, but the Byte review mentioned signals and sockets as
a "Berkeley Unix compatibility add-on".  In other words, it sounds
like the lowest-end BSD-like system around.  I personally don't
like A/UX very much, because it is not decently integrated with
the rest of the Mac environment; however, bang for the buck
is very good.
     The lowest-end system I like in the BSD graphics league is
the Sun 3/60, advertised last year with 4 megs RAM, mono 1152 X 900
screen, 18 MHz (I think) 68020, and 70 megs disk, for $6000.  Mono screen,
without color emulation, means rotten CAD etc., but for something
like $1000 you get the Sun 1152 X 900 X 8-out-of-24-bit beauty.
If you want more universal compatibility, a Sun mono 386i with most of
the above, running a 16 MHz 80386 and 80 megs, is $10,000.
||Jonathan E. Brickman