Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!rpi!crdgw1!ge-dab!peora!tarpit!bilver!bill From: bill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: Risc System/6000 Message-ID: <501@bilver.UUCP> Date: 24 Feb 90 19:09:40 GMT References: <10307@hoptoad.uucp-> <4115@ibmpa.UUCP> <5098@brazos.Rice.edu> Reply-To: bill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion) Organization: W. J. Vermillion, Winter Park, FL Lines: 52 In article windley@cheetah.ucdavis.edu (Phil Windley/20000000) writes: -> ->In article <5098@brazos.Rice.edu> schafer@brazos.rice.edu (Richard A. Schafer) writes: -> -> I just signed on IBMLINK and ran a configuration on the standard grayscale -> configuration. I don't come up with the $12,995 price, but did produce the -> following configuration: -> -> Powerstation 320 $7475 -> 120MB disk $1950 -> Grayscale adapter $1395 -> keyboard $ 255 -> mouse $ 130 -> mono display $1295 -> ------ Hardware total, $12,500 -> AIX 3.0 $1250 -> AIX Xwindows $ 500 -> ------ Software total, $ 1,750 -> Package total, $14,250 -> -> -> ->An IBM ad in the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday quoted the $12995 price ->for a 320 with gretscale monitor, 8Mb RAM, 120 Mb disk, ethrenet, AIX, and ->AIX Windows. I don't know what kind of pricing arrangement it is, but ->apparently, they're selling a "complete" machine for that price. In the product description of the 320 under the heading of Machine Requirements arr: 1. IBM Supported ASCII terminal or IBM supported display and keyboard. 2. AIX Version 3 for RISC System/6000 (5706-088) That implies (or is it infers) that you can have a fully operation system for the $7475 base + $1250 for AIX + $659 (IBM's most expensive of the ASCII line). That's $9384 for as stripped as you can get. Makes it cheaper than their Model 80 line running Unix or Xenix. In their 6000 overview publication (190-019) I find a few items of interest. These are direct quotes. "BIM intends to provide a FDDI adapater for the RISC System/6000 family. THis interface will allow a RISC System/6000 to attach to a FDDI 100 Mbps optical LAN." "IBM intends to prove a Serial Optical Channel ro RISC System/6000 high speed, inter-processor communications and attachment to future high-bandwidth devices." -- Bill Vermillion - UUCP: uunet!tarpit!bilver!bill : bill@bilver.UUCP