Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!husc6!purdue!decwrl!vixie
From: vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Re: The 'cost' of a '532 system.
Keywords: cheap nsc 532
Message-ID: <924@bacchus.dec.com>
Date: 21 Nov 88 08:32:46 GMT
References: <433@sdrc.UUCP> <2659@sultra.UUCP> <1041@raspail.UUCP> <2661@sultra.UUCP> <256@aber-cs.UUCP> <17648@gatech.edu>
Distribution: eunet,world
Organization: DEC Western Research Lab
Lines: 25

## [...] the only real superiority of BSD over 5.3.2 is the Fast file system, 

This is debatable, and as Ken says below, it's a religious issue anyway.  Not
that I'd mind wasting SysV in public for the Nth time, but that's not what
this group is about so let's table it.

## and Interactive's version of 386 5.3.2 has it...  
#
# For the record, no it doesn't.

Quite right, it doesn't.  Similar in name only.

# [...] For the price of a MINIMUM, which would be FAR from what an OS
# developer would need, '386 based system (16MHz, 2MB, 40-60MB disk, EGA, ISC
# 386ix v.2.0 == $5500+) you should be able to dig up a usable 32k based Unix
# machine.

Heck, Symmetric 375's cost about that much.  Not that I particularly
recommend the '375, but I agree that anyone who wants to program an OS
for the 32k should probably be programming WITH a 32k if it's at all
possible.
-- 
Paul Vixie
Work:    vixie@decwrl.dec.com    decwrl!vixie    +1 415 853 6600
Play:    paul@vixie.sf.ca.us     vixie!paul      +1 415 864 7013