Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!fauern!faui44!dkhusema@faui44.UUCP From: dkhusema@faui44.UUCP (Dirk Husemann (Inf4 - hiwi),0.058I4,7908,09131-302036) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Powerful machines at home (was Re: R.I.P. BYTE:) Message-ID: <642@faui44.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Date: 26 Sep 88 11:05:44 GMT References: <4664@cbmvax.UUCP> Sender: dkhusema@faui44.informatik.uni-erlangen.de Lines: 34 From article <4664@cbmvax.UUCP>, by daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie): > an AT box. It was also a good point on what you can get used if you put > together your own system -- your $3k AT system isn't going come with > support for 16 users, 4-8 megs of RAM, and 700+ megs of hard disk space, > like the mentioned 68020 UNIX system. And even if you add all that extra > stuff, you're still stuck with a 16 bit machine running 16 bit UNIX. What's > a base priced '386 UNIX machine going to run? > I'm planning on buying a '386 AT compatible machine to run UNIX SysVr3 on it. This is want I think I'll have to spend: 80386 machine with EGA Card and EGA monitor (800x600), 2 MB of memory, and 80 MB of hard disk, 5 1/4 floppy, 3 1/2 floppy, 101-keyboard, mouse: DM 8100.00 -> US$ 4200.00 Bell Technologies Unix SysVr3, unlimited user: US$ 225.00 All in all: ~ US$ 4500.00 or DM 8500.00 > -- > Dave Haynie "The 32 Bit Guy" Commodore-Amiga "The Crew That Never Rests" > {ihnp4|uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: D-DAVE H BIX: hazy > "I can't relax, 'cause I'm a Boinger!" ------------------ Smile, tomorrow will be worse! -------------- Email: dkhusema@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de Or: {pyramid,unido}!fauern!faui44!dkhusema Mail: Dirk Husemann, Aufsess-Str. 19, D-8520 Erlangen, West Germany Phone: (Home) +49 9131 302036, (Business) +49 9131 857908 -- Beam me up, Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here! -- --------------- My opinions are mine, mine, mine ---------------