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From: drake@sd2.almaden.ibm.com (Sam Drake)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: 6000 pricing
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Date: 22 Feb 90 01:25:22 GMT
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In article <9077@stiatl.UUCP> meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal) writes:
>OK, let's DO get real. Figure in a ~300 MB SCSI disk, not that
>jive 120 MB unit. Also an ethernet card. And a SCSI 60MB tape
>backup unit. I'm talking standalone or server systems.

First, let's note that I'm not an official spokesman; all the
following is my own opinion.

The $12,995 system includes the 120MB drive and an Ethernet card.
This system should be self-sufficient in a networked (NFS) environment,
but I'll grant you that more disk would probably be essential in a
stand-alone configuration.

>And what is the resolution of that mono display? The size?

Resolution of ALL RISC System/6000 displays and adapters is 1280x1024.
The greyscale adapter displays 8 shades of grey simultaneously.  The
monitors are all 19".

>Now, what comes with the software? TCP/IP, I assume (what about rcp,
>rsh (or rcmd), and the other remote commands?) What about
>NFS? YP? SMTP-based mail? Sendmail? Developers' software (C, dbx,
>sccs, yacc, lex, curses, etc)? Awk? uucp? An online, hypertext
>information system? System administration package? SCSI tape
>drivers? Easy addition of non-IBM SCSI disks? Troff?

I believe the answer to all of the above is "it's in there".

>What about net monitoring stuff (such as traffic, netstat, etc)?

Netstat is certainly there, I don't know about "traffic".

>What about something like sar (SV) or vmstat (4.x)? We never
>found anything like that in the AIX for the PS/2. 

I believe that sar is included.

>Which version of X are they supporting? How do they do on the X
>benchmark that's been out on the net? Which X libraries do they provide?
>What about clients?

The X is 11.3, I don't know about benchmark results.  I believe that
the Motif widgets are standard, along with many of the standard samples
from the MIT tape.

>AN ASIDE
>What about (yuk) DOS? Software (and hardware if necessary)
>to run DOS.

A separately priced product simulates a real-mode 80286 in software
and allows DOS software to run.


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