Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site lasspvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxm!mhuxn!houxm!vax135!cornell!lasspvax!kevin From: kevin@lasspvax.UUCP (Kevin Saunders) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: MAC compatibles and UNIX Message-ID: <145@lasspvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 4-Dec-84 11:13:23 EST Article-I.D.: lasspvax.145 Posted: Tue Dec 4 11:13:23 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 6-Dec-84 04:00:18 EST References: <> Reply-To: kevin@lasspvax.UUCP (Kevin Saunders) Distribution: net Organization: Theory Center (Cornell University) Lines: 31 Summary: (Martin Lee Schoffstall) writes: > ~1k X ~1k noninterlaced display > 68020 with a real MMU > UNIX SYSV Release 2.0 > 1-4 Mbytes of memory > The applebus interface AND a real network interface: > ETHERNET > > Configured as a ethernet'ed diskless node and 1 Mbyte @ $7000 > Configured with a 65Mbyte disk @ $10000 > >Now add a windowing package that pretends to me a MAC and has the >QuickDraw function calls to start with. > >What else would someone want? (This is a serious question.) > Hmmmm. $7000 *when*? By the time a Fat Mac w/ hard disk costs $2500? Also, to run the nifty MacSoftware which will eventually become available, you're gonna need a 3.5" drive (somewhere on the network). You'd also need to kluge in support for the rest of the OS somehow. Personally, I think Macs make sense as super-intelligent terminals; you do need a UNIX box to handle FP, databases, and communications, but is it really sensible to have it handling graphics also? True, Mac screens are kinda dinky. . . . Sinc, Kevin Eric Saunders kevin.lasspvax@cornell.arpa