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I just got a copy of the "official" IBM blurb on the PC RT (32 pages). A
S-word load of products were announced along with the 3 basic boxes.

RT mod 10 (desktop, 40Meg)                            $11700
RT mod 20 (standalone, 40Meg)                          14945
RT mod 25 (standalone, 70Meg) avail 3Q                 17940
   advanced mono/graph disp                              610
   advanced color/graph disp                            1550
   extended mono/graph disp                             1150
   streamer 55Meg                                       1795
   1MB memory                                           1700
   2MB memory                                           2995
   40MB fixed disk                                      2295
   70MB fixed disk                                      3995
   floating point accel.                                 850
   AT coprocessor board                                  995
   streamer adpt                                         430
   4-port async                                          425
   advanced mono adpt                                    775
   extended mono adpt                                   1450
   advanced color adpt                                  1350

RT Virtual Resource Manager (VRM)                       1000
   AIX                                                  3400
   data management                                       500
   sql                                                  1000
   AT coprocessor services                               550
   3278/9 emulation                                      500

   samna+                                               1295

   uniras packages
   solomon III acct packages
   applix IA



Note that warrantee is on-site for all hardware for 12 mos.  Model 25 and
associated hardware (advanced color/extended mono/70MB disk) are to be
available 3Q86 as well as some of the application software.  The model 20
may be expanded to 180MB of disk storage (40/70/70) and the model 25 may
have 3 70MB disks (210MB max).  The streaming tape is fully supported by
AIX.  Basic, Pascal, Fortran were also released.  Also note that the
distribution chain will not be the same as that for the other PC series.
DAVAR's will not be supported and not all dealers will qualify.

The RT may have as many as eight users and may be expanded to 4MB of
physical memory and 1 Terabyte of virtual memory.  DOS applications
may run on the AT coprocessor board concurrently with AIX.  The AIX
implementation is based on AT&T System V release 1 with "chosen" SVR2
and BSD4.2 enhancements.

General availability of the model 10 and 20 will be in March.

-robin ( ..{gatech,akgua}!itcatl!robin )