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Article #14134Re: Need info for initial SUN purchase
From: Gary Lang
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 1990 08:56
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 1990 08:56
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In article <5134@brazos.Rice.edu>, dlarson@blake.acs.washington.edu (Dale Larson) writes: > Given that I need to purchase the machine myself and that my budget will > break in the fairly low thousands, I think that a used SUN may well be the > right choice. Am I wrong? If not, just what should I be able to do with > the box? Open Look? (What would a bare bones system be?) Most recent I would say - get a NeXT machine. It's a Unix box that thinks you're a PC user. It's cheaper than almost all similarly configured Suns except used ones, and already has more GUI software running on it. Check it out. [[But can you run X on a NeXT? -bdg]]
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!sun-spots-request From: acad!megalon!glang@uunet.uu.net (Gary Lang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: Need info for initial SUN purchase Keywords: Hardware Message-ID: <5565@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 7 Mar 90 08:56:52 GMT Sender: root@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 11 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Refs: Original: v9n51 X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 74, message 1