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From: larry@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Help on 386 purchase needed.
Summary: 386 hardware
Message-ID: <511117@nstar.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jan 90 01:19:11 GMT
References: <1990Jan1.230921.4382@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Distribution: usa
Organization: Northern Star Communications, Notre Dame, IN, USA
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>  I have seen an AST 386/33 Model 5, w/2Mb memory and a 110 Mb hard drive,
>  for $6,000.   (Tape drive, coprocessor, and monitor extra, about $1,000)

You could either spend the money and get a system build to your specs - or
save some $$ and build the system yourself.

I am running with an AMI motherboard (386/25) with 8 megs of 80ns 1meg DRAMS
on the motherboard and haven't had any problems running DOS, Xenix or Unix.
-- 
          Larry Snyder, Northern Star Communications, Notre Dame, IN USA 
                uucp: larry@nstar -or- ...!iuvax!ndmath!nstar!larry
      "NO! QNX is non-standard, not compatible, and is no more Unix than DOS!"