Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!mandrill!neoucom!wtm From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.sys.misc Subject: Re: InfoWorld Article on AT&T 6386 WGS Message-ID: <790@neoucom.UUCP> Date: Sun, 29-Nov-87 23:34:30 EST Article-I.D.: neoucom.790 Posted: Sun Nov 29 23:34:30 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 2-Dec-87 02:43:52 EST References: <769@mtunf.ATT.COM> Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine Lines: 21 Keywords: 6386, Steven Satchell, Performance Xref: utgpu comp.sys.att:1683 comp.sys.misc:941 Summary: I agree; I didn't like the Infoworld article either. I too was unnerved by the Infowold discussion of the AT&T workstation 386. Aside from the out and out mistakes in the article that have benn cited: Infoworld, while giving lip service to Unix, is a blue pin striped msdos slave. They didn't give any considerations to functionality of the machine beyond its ability to run msdos dhrystones (or whatever their bench criterion is). The networking ability and the Unix/DOS merge functions are unique to the workstation 386; they were not considered in the article. These are unique and important assets. Infoworld is too sensitive to price in determining the overall rating of a product. Often a crappy product is given a higher rating than a better fucntioning product, simply because the crappy product is cheaper. People that buy IBM have certainly proved that in business, the cost of capital equipment is not a major issue. --Bill