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In article <QX7VWWyS2k-0E0m2FX@andrew.cmu.edu>, ls1i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Leonard John Schultz) writes:
> 
>   I am considering purchasing either an IBM model 70 or an Apple Mac II.  I
> What do you think?
 (price, graphics, etc comparisons deleted...)
>                                                                            Len
> Schultz
> lsli@andrew.cmu.edu

Well, since you posted to comp.sys.mac, this reply is probably already biased,
right? :-)  Since I noticed that you're using Andrew instead of any of the
TOPS-20 machines at Carnegie-Mellon, you may want to consider hooking into
Andrew from your dorm room (or the 96,000bps voice/data lines the phone
company there is using if you live off-campus).  A Mac II, possibly running
MACH (see one of the recent MacWEEK's about MACH vs. BSD vs SYS V, etc),
will eventually be able to run Andrew's Window Manager.  Unfortunately, I
have no idea what the timeframe for this will be.  Before the SE was even
out (but darn close), the ITC was thinking/working on running a kind of
mini-Messages on the Macs... so I imagine that it can't be that far off.

Sure, IBM is the big name in Andrew, and there are RT's all over campus,
but is IBM going to get Andrew running on PS/2's?  Probably not without some
version of UNIX, and they may in fact be doing this, but I haven't seen
about it yet.  Has anyone else heard what's going on in this area?


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