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ramsiri@blake.acs.washington.edu (Enartloc Nhoj) writes:

[...]

>I originally simply posted an ad I saw for a 25Mhz 386 box, 8 expansion
>slots, VGA color high res monitor and card, 60 meg 1:1 hard drive, floppy,
>keyboard, 1meg RAM  for $1995.00 ... and correct me if I am wrong,
>there are several flavors of UNIX to choose from that should indeed 
>run on this machine.  I don't understand why people such as Jouni
>say:  " first truly affordable machine for Unix-usage; ... as good
>but MANY TIMES cheaper..".  Does Jouni know something that I don't
>know? [...]

OK, so a 25 MHz 386 box comes at $1995.00 (in the US, i guess). But it 
is probably delivered with MS-DOS, for that price. Is it MS-DOS 3.x or 
MS-DOS 4.x? Most certainly it won't be OS/2. And even more certainly it
won't be a UNIX system.

So the question arises: How much is SCO Xenix in the US? How much do you 
have to pay for SCO UNIX (who wants SCO Xenix if they can have SCO Unix).
Does Microport still sell and how much do you have to pay for that? And
how about those Unixes as far as X-Windows is concerned?

However, since the prices for the TT with Unix and X-Windows isn't known
yet, how can you truly compare?

Conclusion: If you need POWER WITHOUT THE PRICE NOW, look for a 386 box 
but don't expect to get a cheap Unix system out of it. If you need POWER
regardless of price then go for a workstation typt thing with Unix and
maybe X-Windows. If you can wait, then you might as well see what a TT
with Unix and X windows costs and what performance it yields.

Martin

P.S.: Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T
P.P.S.: All of the above are MY opinions. 

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