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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
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Posted: Tue Dec  4 11:13:23 1984
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Reply-To: kevin@lasspvax.UUCP (Kevin Saunders)
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Organization: Theory Center (Cornell University)
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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