Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ibmchs!auschs!awdprime!stingray!marc From: marc@stingray..austin.ibm.com (Marc J. Stephenson/140000;1C-22) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: Risc System/6000 (120MB disk feasibility) Message-ID: <1612@awdprime.UUCP> Date: 23 Feb 90 15:27:16 GMT References: <1596@awdprime.UUCP> <1990Feb23.004045.26109@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> Sender: news@awdprime.UUCP Reply-To: marc@awdprime.austin.ibm.com.UUCP (Marc J. Stephenson) Organization: IBM AWD, Austin, TX Lines: 48 In article <1990Feb23.004045.26109@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> abstine@image.soe.clarkson.edu (Arthur Stine) writes: >From article <1596@awdprime.UUCP>, by marc@stingray..austin.ibm.com (Marc J. Stephenson): >> [My ill-fated video counter example] >> >Is this to say that IBM thinks that people who need terminals at video >checkout counters are going to buy RS/6000's? Come on, lets be real. If >you want to be in that market, then fine. But if you want to be in the >tech workstation market, then package the systems for it. The price/performance >of the RS/6000 is nice, but the configuration is not. Throw away the ESDI and >[diskless and SCSI recommendations deleted in the interest of space] > >-- >Art Stine >Sr Network Engineer >Clarkson U >ABStine@CLVMS.Clarkson.Edu Disclaimer: I'm not in marketing and I can't say what market IBM is heading for. I'm a developer well-shielded from any of those decisions, and any marketing directions which I opine about are truly my own. All of the development machines which my little area here use have SCSI and 16MB, various tape drives, and Token-Ring. Most of them are various forms of the 530 box. I like them. <-- Opinion :-) Anyway, there are "oodles" of configurations available. I would hope that we have good solutions at good prices for the various computing situations where workstations compete. Seriously. By the way, the video checkout example (though I may have the facts a little off, maybe they're doing video checkout and quantum mechanics :-)) is a real-life RT example running COBOL. What I meant was that there is a market aside from the techie market. I'm sure that my upper-level management understands that the techie market is extremely important. But once again, I'm no marketeer. Let me escape back to the technical questions, please... As an aside, a lot of these questions have to do with the hardware rather than AIX. The comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt newgroup is being used along with this one for hardware and system information. I would hope that we will soon have enough interest and questions to merit a new newsgroup for this information. Neither current newsgroup seems the proper place for this particular posting. Anybody want to take responsibility, or is it too soon? start Marc Stephenson (marc@stingray.austin.ibm.com) Location: F57/992, (79)3-3796, ZIP 2401, 1C-22/992, Austin, Texas Internal: marc@stingray.austin.ibm.com VNET: MARC at AUSVM6 External: uunet!cs.utexas.edu!ibmaus!auschs!stingray.austin.ibm.com!marc