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- From: rhealey@rogue.digibd.com (Rob Healey)
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- Subject: Re: Various UNIX possibilities. Which would you buy, and why?
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- Date: 5 Jan 93 22:32:41 GMT
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- In article <C0AApv.85I@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, btaplin@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (bradley richard taplin) writes:
- |> Hello. I recently read the "real low-end" article in a late-fall
- |> issue of SunExpert and am curious about the new SparcClassic. Is
- |> 16 mb RAM, a 207 mb hard drive, and Solaris 2.1 a good standalone
- |> package? Would it be possible to develop using GNU C or Sun's C?
- |> C++ as well? Scheme? Could this become a "home server" providing
- |> terminal access from a Macintosh and/or DOS box in other rooms?
- |>
- Hurl the 207 and get at LEAST a 525M disk, the more the better. Also,
- add a few hundred for the floppy drive, it's extra on the classic,
- and a few hundred for the CD-ROM drive, 99.99% of software for Sun
- ships on CD-ROM these days. A GNU C distribution for the classic
- is available from various anonymous FTP sites.
-
- It would make a decent home server system with the right additions,
- I'd say about $5k or so total cost.
-
- |> The latest issue of Byte has very favorable things to say about
- |> the new Amiga 3000T-040 and Amiga 4000 systems. These remain in
- |> my mind odd possibilities, but the multimedia capabilities do
- |> make them somewhat attractive. How standard is Amiga's UNIX?
- |>
- SVR4.0. Problem is C= itself doesn't appear to be doing anything
- with UNIX. My money for future AmigaUNIX is for some third
- party to provide it or else C= will outsource it to a third
- party to port/support. An '040 based AmigaUNIX would be VERY
- nice! Other possibilitys are Mach and maybe some Linux port although
- I hear 386BSD and Linux have Intel dependancys that would be a bear
- to deal with on a big endian architecture.
-
- -Rob
-