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- From: tmarsh@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Kassandra)
- Subject: A/UX on a IIsi? (Need advice quick!)
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- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 00:44:30 GMT
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- I have a few questions about running A/UX on a IIsi. Apple's back to
- school prices are really good right about now ($1406 for a 5MB/80MB
- drive IIsi) and I'm thinking about running A/UX on one. I've looked
- into upgrading to whatever I need between 8 and 17 MB and that isn't too
- bad ($139 per 4 MB SIMM).
-
-
- My concern is with disk space and speed. Would a
- IIsi be prohibatively slow to run A/UX well? (I know it CAN run A/UX,
- but it it worth running it?)
-
-
- Would a cache card like Daystar Digital's
- FastCache or Combocache IIsi, or Applied Engineering's Quicksilver cache
- card help? If so, how much? The Daystar Powercache is a little too
- expensive, but the Combocache can apparently be upgraded later to a
- Powercache.
-
-
- Is an 80 MB hard drive too small for general use? From everything I
- have read here, it is, but Apple does offer a IIsi setup, as I quote
- from the price list I got:
-
-
- "B0860LL/A Macintosh IIsi 9MB Hard Disk 90 CPU Educ. Price: $2624
- Includes IIsi A/UX CPU w/Adapter Card (M1410LL/A) and A/UX CD-ROM
- Product (M0598LL/B)."
-
- Could this system run A/UX well? And what is the adapter card
- (M1410LL/A)? Is this card necessary to run A/UX?
-
- Could I just as easily buy a IIsi (the place has _one_ IIsi in stock by
- accident) and add some ram,and the A/UX product (which comes with
- manuals, while the pre-installed system does not) or do I need this
- adapter card?
-
- Now economic questions...Would I be better off buying a IIci to begin
- with or even a Quadra 700 (but those are SOOOOO expensive comparatively)
-
- About hard drives...How much are hard drives running (around 200MB
- external)? If I'm going to have to buy one, is it better to just buy a
- better system like the IIci? Are there any recomendations for relatively
- low-priced hard drives suitable for A/UX?
-
-
- Now for my last question...Will an external ethernet box run through
- SCSI work with A/UX? My dorm rents them for the school year and I
- wonder if it will work with this system.
-
-
- Thank you one and all for reading this, and even more thanks if you can
- answer any of these questions. (this is by far my longest post ever :-)
-
-
- Tanya
-
- tmarsh@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
-
-