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From: kempf@tci.bell-atl.com (Cory Kempf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re^2: Xerox sues Apple!!!
Keywords: Get real...
Message-ID: <505@tci.bell-atl.com>
Date: 23 Dec 89 00:12:12 GMT
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ron@woan.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan) 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. 

Bringing in Unix is begging the issue.

>					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.

Hate to burst your bubble, but I have just finished purchasing a Mac
IIci with a 600Mb Hard disk for under $7k.  I don't have A/UX running
on it (it's currently running on a IIcx that we have), but I know that
I could get A/UX for under a $1k.  And if I wanted to, I could also
run MS-DOS, without extra hardware.  Can your PC run Mac programs?

+C
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