Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site wjh12.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!vaxine!wjh12!svr From: svr@wjh12.UUCP (Rosenthal) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Reasonable 68K UNIX vendor wanted - (nf) Message-ID: <261@wjh12.UUCP> Date: Wed, 20-Jul-83 14:19:02 EDT Article-I.D.: wjh12.261 Posted: Wed Jul 20 14:19:02 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 20-Jul-83 21:18:49 EDT References: <1121@zehntel.UUCP> Organization: Harvard University PSR, Cambridge MA Lines: 20 I second the recommendation for MASSCOMP as a vendor of 68K based systems. We took an early delivery of one (in January) which is used to support a research project in cardiac electrophysiology at Massachusetts general Hospital. It's been an absolute delight - rock solid hardware, a very faithful port of system III plus Berkeley enhancements, with a good bit-mapped graphics display (800 X 600 monochrome). The firm has been most pleasant to do business with. You might find the price a bit steep (I blanched a little, but it has the fastest A-D converter in the West which was an important requirement for us) but the reliability has been outstanding. Their user-friendly menu front end to unix is a little too friendly in my opinion (user-amorous ?) but you don't have to use it if you don't want to. I've benchmarked it using the prime number benchmark n C that appeared in BYTE earlier this year, and it's right up there with 11/750s - and not much slower than our 780 (2.4 seconds versus 1.6 seconds cpu time). Simon Rosenthal. (decvax!linus!genrad!wjh12!svr)