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I figured masscomp folks might have some educated opinions, so ...
This is a request for advice:  I'm trying to put together a very respectable
personal system for the next couple of years (till the Super-engineering
workstations come down to $5k.).  Its uses would include some commercial
applications (that is, business type stuff) and software development.
Preferred characteristics are:

	o	Unix -- now or very soon (avail. within 1 yr.)

	o	desktop publishing at least up to mac quality level

	ooo	multiple operating system capability, even if this
		anticipates additional processor cards  (methinks
		this is better than buying 4 different machines.?.)
	
	o	speed.  don't want my hair to turn grey while I'm
		waiting for something running on a hardware simulator,
		for example, to execute a single instruction

	o	color graphics better than IBM cga, cheaper than a
		$50k Silicon Graphics workstation

	o	full-page display would be pretty handy.

	o	Big harddrive; ample memory
		(80 meg, 2 Meg is a nice starting point, bigger better)

	o	Don't need (right now) state of the art CAD/CAM
		facilities.  Can't go much over the $10k limit.
		Or, need to aim for near to $5k for a
		stripped machine if I'm to afford the bells
		& whistles.

Multiple OS support is a goody and a biggy that I'd really like.
(Seems like this would depend on architecture and vendor's economics...)
Here's my reasoning:

	I can afford to buy ONE flexible machine, and equip it
	with some REALLY nice goodies:  a very good display,
	a massive (for one user) hard drive, similarly generous
	RAM, a backup system, and so on.: All the goodies that
	make an environment more fun!  But, once I've invested in
	all those nice things, I want to be able to work with (read/write)
	and write code for Unix, MS-DOS, and Mac's OS. (For
	starters.)  I CAN'T afford to buy three or four
	vendor's machines and equip each one of them as nicely
	as the single hypothetical machine above.

	So, even if I have to install some extra processor boards
	{which had better be REAL ones that are available or will be --
	 hypothetical boards don't run real software }, AND 
	suffer some slowdown, I think I'm much better off
	with one multifaceted machine.

If YOU can recommend (or sell to me) something that will approach
my Pipe-Dream as above, please let me know what it is and how much
it'll cost.  I welcome the suggestion of a machine which hasn't been
released yet, if it fits the bill, and WILL be released within 6 mos. to
a year.  Or, If you'd find my reasoning faulty, I invite criticisms.

Please send a copy of your response directly to me.

-thomas
en2j@vax1.ccs.cornell.edu
en2j@crnlvax1.bitnet