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- From: meunier@quasar.enst.fr (Sylvain Meunier)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Have $8000, what to buy?
- Message-ID: <2458@ulysse.enst.fr>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 16:42:08 GMT
- References: <RG.92Aug10111713@nymph.msel.unh.edu> <1992Aug11.164928.2658@tfs.com>
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- In article <1992Aug11.164928.2658@tfs.com>, paigen@tfs.com (David Paigen) writes:
- -> rg@msel.unh.edu (Roger Gonzalez) writes:
- ->
- -> >I want a Unix machine. Now.
- ->
- -> >I want BSD features. I want full networking. I want X11R5. I want color. I
- -> >want at least 1.2Gb of disk, and 16Mb of memory. I have $8000, and won't be
- -> >able to add much more for at least a year.
- ->
- -> >What should I buy? Sparc IPC? Iris Indigo? A HP? A PC (shudder) with BSDI?
- -> >A NeXT? A Mac with A/UX? I only know that I can pick up an IPC for about
- -> >$5000 after discount, and then use $3000 for buying peripherals. Who else has
- -> >deals like that?
- ->
- -> After having spent 5 years contracting on almost every workstation class
- -> unix platform, I'll add my $0.02 here.
- ->
- .
- .
- .
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- ->
- -> As much maligned as the PC is (with good reason), it gives the best bang
- -> for the buck. $2K will buy you a 486/50 (at least here in silicon
- -> valley). Another $2K for a big monitor and a big disk leaves you $4K
- -> to hang the kitchen sink off of it. Add a SoundBlaster. Add an X-10
- -> interface. Add analog<=>digital converters. Add an NTSC board. Plus,
- -> you would get source to your OS.
- ->
-
- Ok for computer but which Unix OS will you chose ? A good OS with full
- compatilility with other OS ...
-
- -> Sun is my second choice. With a budget of $20K or more it would be my
- -> first choice. But not when spending less than $10K. I wouldn't buy
- -> any of the other machines you mentioned even with someone else's money.
- ->
- -> But that is only an opinion.
- ->
- -> ----------------------->"Lay on, McDuff, 14th c. ideals in a 21st c. world
- -> David Paigen and damn'd be he N: PLO Bush IRA CIA KKK
- -> TRW Financial Systems who first cries, S: terrorism pipe bomb kill
- -> paigen@tfs.com 'hold, enough!'" A: assasination maim
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- S. Meunier E-Mail: meunier@inf.enst.fr
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