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From: rewing@Apple.COM (Richard Ewing)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!
Summary: You've missed the point...
Keywords: Get real...
Message-ID: <37474@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 21 Dec 89 22:23:42 GMT
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In article <1193@awdprime.UUCP> @cs.utexas.edu:ibmchs!auschs!woan.austin.ibm.com!ron writes:
>In article <1989Dec21.010731.5240@hellgate.utah.edu>,
>t-jacobs@cs.utah.edu (Tony Jacobs) writes:
>> Oh, can the PC expand to two monitors and have contiguous workspace that
>> is user configurable??
>
>Run AIX/PS2 or the Interactive Unix with X-Windows and stuff 4
>monitors and run them all under X. Try that with a stock Mac or price
>that with a Mac II. Remember a VGA, 25 MHz '386 with a 150MB Harddrive
>will run you under $3500. Add another K for a Weitek floating point
>and you have got yourself a mighty nice little workstation. OK, add
>another K for a base UNIX OS, too. Still compare that to the 7 or 8K
>for a MAC II with A/UX, and you'd still have a few thousand left over
>for that 330MB SCSI hard drive.
>
>                                        Ron
>
>+-----All Views Expressed Are My Own And Are Not Necessarily Shared By------+ 
>+------------------------------My Employer----------------------------------+ 
>+ Ronald S. Woan  (IBM VNET)WOAN AT AUSTIN, (AUSTIN)ron@woan.austin.ibm.com + 
>+ outside of IBM       @cs.utexas.edu:ibmchs!auschs!woan.austin.ibm.com!ron + 
>+ last resort                                        woan@peyote.cactus.org +


I think you've greatly missed the point here.  I can put multiple monitors
on any Mac II or SE/30 class machine, and third parties have even
figured out ways to do it with the SE and the original Mac Plus!
You talk about running 4 monitors on a PS/2 running AIX (UNIX!) and
X-Windows(!!!) just to accomplish the same thing.  Then you talk about
getting a computer with a 25 MHz processor, VGA, and a 150 meg hard
disk.  Well, I dunno if you've priced IBM hardware lately, but if
you can get a Model 70 with decent memory and all those things
for $3500 dollars, I wanna know the dealer.  Of course, you haven't
mentioned about where you are getting the monitors from.  And
I guess you can run AIX on a clone, although I'm not sure who's doing it.
And besides, its AIX!!!!  Not DOS!  Not Windows!  Not OS/2!!!  Not
anything close to what normal people use!

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