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From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
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Subject: Re: New Ideas in BBSes (No BS!)
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Date: 10 Dec 88 11:20:45 GMT
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Richard O'Keefe asks about AT&T's UNIXPC ...

They're still around; very active in comp.sys.att and the unix-pc.* newsgroups.

Some 70,000 of the UNIXPC (aka 3B1 aka 7300) were mfd, and at the "closeout"
sale price of 1987-1988 they're one heckuva bargain; I have 4!  :-)

Quick overview: 10MHz 68010, MMU, (demand?) paging, variety of HDs, 3-button
mouse, expansion slots, 512K to 2MB RAM on motherboard, some variant of SVR2
with a lot of extensions, hires tilt'n'swivel monitor (monochrome), keyboard
"garage", sh & ksh, GNU stuff runs fine, etc. Nice system for under $2,000.

A number of Amiga developers have UNIXPCs as adjuncts.

Thad Floryan [thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad]