🚀 go-pugleaf

I don't know what you want your computer for, but if I were to get
any computer for software development I'd get an Apollo DN3000.  "Of
course," you say, "you work for Apollo."  True, but all biases aside
I still don't think you can beat it, particularly if you want to
develop software for a number of systems.  It comes with BSD4.2 *and*
System V.  It has a PC bus and will take PC and PC/AT cards, and
there is a PC co-proccessor card on the way.  Right there you have a
development system for 3 popular operating systems.  Then when you
add in that the black&white version has a 1024/1280 screen (or you
can get the smaller 4 plane color version) with a real windowing
system (transcript pads, icons, invisible windows, dynamically
sizeable windows, default window positions, user-definable
keydefs...)  and a 68020 processor -- I used to think that I could
put up with a Mac at home to program on, now I don't think I could
even deal with that.  It's too easy to get spoiled by a screen that
allows you to have 4 windows that each are more than 80 characters by
24 lines.  Now if I can just persuade Apollo to let me take it home!
(Fat chance, pretty soon they'll come to take my Alpha test one away
and I'll have to go back to a 68000 800x1024 DN400).

                                    Kee Hinckley

Oops, I almost forgot - pricing is in the 9 to 10K range, including a
disk (I think 70Meg is the default) and 2Meg of memory.  And of
course, if you get more than one they all network, so you can move
all the system software onto one node and have that much more space
on the other.


*** The above opinions are, of course, mine, and should not
    reflect the views of Apollo Computer. ***