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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
- Path: sparky!uunet!sun-barr!ames!agate!tfs.com!tfs.com!paigen
- From: paigen@tfs.com (David Paigen)
- Subject: Re: Have $8000, what to buy?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.192806.13072@tfs.com>
- Organization: TRW Financial Systems
- References: <RG.92Aug10111713@nymph.msel.unh.edu> <1992Aug11.164928.2658@tfs.com> <2458@ulysse.enst.fr>
- Distribution: comp
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 19:28:06 GMT
- Lines: 30
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- rg@msel.unh.edu (Roger Gonzalez) writes:
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- >-> >I want a Unix machine. Now.
- >->
- >-> >I want BSD features. I want full networking. I want X11R5. I want color.
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- I write:
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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.
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- meunier@quasar.enst.fr (Sylvain Meunier) writes:
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- >Ok for computer but which Unix OS will you chose ? A good OS with full
- >compatilility with other OS ...
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- Rodger said he wanted BSD, so that rules out sVr4. 386BSD costs nothing,
- BSDI's BSD/386 costs $1000. I would suggest BSDI, it might be more
- stable. Note the 'might'. Also note that I have not played with either.
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- I will be installing 386BSD this weekend, barring any major problems.
-
- ----------------------->"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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