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From: seenu@isieng.UUCP (Seenu Banda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.arch
Subject: DECstation 3100 info.
Keywords: 3100, Advantedge 2000
Message-ID: <979@isieng.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jan 89 20:40:12 GMT
Organization: Integrated Solutions, Inc., San Jose, CA
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I have seen the DEC 3100 announcement today.
This workstation sounds very similar to
the one made by Integrated Solutions (ISI).
Can anyone enlighten me more about the 3100
to understand the differences between the
two products?

Integrated Solution has been shipping
Advantedge 2000 workstation for a few months and 
announced the product in December 1988.
Advantedge 2000 is also based on R2000 
operating at 16.67MHz. This UNIX workstation
has an on-board SCSI and Ethernet. 

The major differences in the system are
	Operating System:
		DEC uses Ultrix
		ISI uses RISC/os (UMIPS) or
		    ISI's UNIX "Dual Universe"
		    which can run 4.3BSD and Sys V.3
		    simultaneously.
Similarities:
	Size:
		Both look about the same size
	UNIX:
		Both have a version of UNIX
	I/O:
		Both have SCSI and Ethernet.
		ISI uses a 80186 compatible NEC V50
		for I/O processing. Does anyone
		know what the 3100 uses? Has anyone
		come across any performance numbers?
	Pricing:
		Comparable


I will appreciate any information (or pointers to info.)
on the DECstation 3100. Thanks in advance,

seenu	..!pyramid!isieng!seenu