Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umd5.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxn!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!umcp-cs!cvl!umd5!louie From: louie@umd5.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: MAC compatibles and UNIX Message-ID: <258@umd5.UUCP> Date: Tue, 4-Dec-84 11:36:28 EST Article-I.D.: umd5.258 Posted: Tue Dec 4 11:36:28 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 6-Dec-84 05:56:04 EST References: <142@cadtroy.UUCP> Reply-To: louie@umd5.UUCP (Louis Mamakos) Distribution: net Organization: U of Md, CSC, College Park, Md Lines: 29 Summary: In article <142@cadtroy.UUCP> schoff@cadtroy.UUCP (Martin Lee Schoffstall) writes: > >Start with: > > ~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 > . > . >What else would someone want? (This is a serious question.) > What good is an ethernet with no software to use it?? That's why all of the UN*X machines on campus here run 4.2BSD with TCP/IP networking rather than Sys V. I wouldn't consider a box like that in a University environment unless it had a *real* ability to do high-speed networking to the rest of the computers here on campus, and that means 4.2BSD right now. Other than that, I sounds great; I'd love to have something like that on my desk. Louis A. Mamakos Computer Science Center - Systems Programming University of Maryland, College Park Internet: louie@umd5.arpa UUCP: ..!seismo!cvl!umd5!louie