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Re: Hottest Workstation for the money

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From: Dennis D. Sherod
Date: Sat, 13 May 1989 07:00
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In article <2565@ogccse.ogc.edu> johnr@ogccse.ogc.edu (John Roberts) writes:
>In article <369@npiatl.UUCP>, dkelly@npiatl.UUCP (Dwight Kelly) writes:
>> In everyone's personal opinion, what is the hottest workstation
>> currently available for around $10,000-12,000?  Need Unix (SV or BSD), TCP/IP,
>> NFS, and graphics (prefer 8bit color).  I already have a great RGB 24'' monitor 
>
>Without a doubt..... The Cogent XTM workstation!!!
> 
>For around $20K you get two Inmos T800 transputers each with 4 Mbytes of
>RAM, a 90 Mbyte hard drive, an 800K floppy drive and a 1024 by 808 by 256

Didn't I hear $10,000 - $12,000?  According to the April issue of MIPS
Magazine the hottest workstation box today is the AV-300 (DG Maverick
88K).  AND the price is right...
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From: dds@spsd.uu.net (Dennis D. Sherod)
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Subject: Re: Hottest Workstation for the money
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Date: 13 May 89 07:00:32 GMT
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