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Article #25666Re: The cost of A/ux (Sticker Shock)
From: Dwight D Mckay
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1988 21:42
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1988 21:42
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There are cheaper ways to buy a UNIX workstation for home use then running A/UX on a Mac II. For example: A used Sun 2/120. Specs: 19 ich monochrome monitor 68010 w/3 Meg. Memory in multi-bus card cage two 50 Meg. disks 1 1/4 inch cart tape drive 6 serial ports keyboard and optical mouse Four of us here purchased machines like this for about $4000 a piece. We had considered Mac II's but even before A/UX was announced it was clear that a Mac II equiped in a similar fashion to the above system would be far more expensive. As it turns out it's more that twice as expensive to get a similar Mac II system. Although the above system is somewhat slower then a Mac II, it's overall performance is quite good (due in part to DMA for disk I/O). And I have money left over to buy more disk space or a laser printer or whatever... --Dwight D. McKay, Moderator of Suns-at-Home mailing list
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!hao!gatech!purdue!i.cc.purdue.edu!j.cc.purdue.edu!pur-ee!ea.ecn.purdue.edu!mckay From: mckay@ea.ecn.purdue.edu (Dwight D Mckay) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: The cost of A/ux (Sticker Shock) Message-ID: <1844@ea.ecn.purdue.edu> Date: 25 Feb 88 21:42:59 GMT References: <11540137@hpsmtc1.HP.COM> <430018@hpcea.CE.HP.COM> <427@sering.cwi.nl> Reply-To: mckay@ea.ecn.purdue.edu.UUCP (Dwight D Mckay) Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network Lines: 26