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- From: tim@sinix.UUCP (Tim Bissell)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Have $8000, what to buy?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.155011.1039@sinix.UUCP>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 15:50:11 GMT
- References: <RG.92Aug10111713@nymph.msel.unh.edu> <1992Aug11.164928.2658@tfs.com>
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- Organization: SNI AG Muenchen, STO XS
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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
- >
- >After having spent 5 years contracting on almost every workstation class
- >unix platform, I'll add my $0.02 here.
- >
- >Stay away from A/UX. It is slow (or used to be) and not really BSD. Ditto
- >for the NeXT, a flashy machine for users, an "insanity machine" for
- >seasoned unix people. Doesn't even pretend to be real unix.
-
- As far as the NeXT is concerned, ignore this guy. NeXT Unix *is* BSD 4.3.
- Well, it is Mach 2.0 which still consists largely of BSD 4.3, but with
- modified VM. Only visible difference is the absence of sbrk(2) and brk(2).
-
- It has TCP/IP, NFS, Yellow pages/NIS plus NeXT's own NetInfo stuff, but you
- can ignore that. The NeXT windowing system is based around Display Postscript,
- and is much nicer than X to program, but you can find several implementations
- of X11, free and commercial. You can get colour. It has excellent sound.
- It has *lots* of goodies supplied for free with it. A colour station
- will cost $6000 or so, leaving you with $2000 or so for a 1gig Disk. Make
- sure you have at least 16 MB for a colour machine.
-
- Anyway, try one - I'm sure you will like it.
-
- Tim.
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