Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!chinet!les
From: les@chinet.UUCP (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for a cheap 4.3 Unix box...
Message-ID: <6487@chinet.UUCP>
Date: 3 Sep 88 20:40:02 GMT
References: <6831@potomac.ads.com> <606@rtg.cme-durer.ARPA> <411@geovision.UUCP>
Reply-To: les@chinet.UUCP (Leslie Mikesell)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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In article <411@geovision.UUCP> pt@geovision.UUCP (Paul Tomblin) writes:
>What about the AT&T Unix PC.  Is it a real orphan, or does it work
>ok?  Unix World has some adds in the back that show it to be
>around $1500 - 2000 for 2Mb Ram, 67Mb Hard Disk.  Sounds good, but
>can anyone tell me about software, expansion hardware, etc.

For the price, it is hard to beat.  You just have to keep in mind that
anything that is not available for the machine now probably never will be.
The machine is greatly helped by having the programs compiled with a
shared library (for example /bin/cat is 2248 bytes) and it has a windowing
system for the console.
The development system includes vi and ksh (otherwise you don't get them).
Some of the commands are not quite the same as SysVr2 (about 20 pages of
differences in the docs) but the C language interface is almost exactly
the same as any other SysVr2 machine.  The speed is fine for one or
two users.  For example, GNU emacs (a 537K program) loads in about 15 seconds.

Les Mikesell