joe@dual.UUCP (Joe Weinstein) (06/30/86)
If you've seen this before, HELP! This letter got me some good feedback but a power SNAFU lost my mbox! If you send, (or RESEND ) me your comments I will reply personally. ( THE NEW COMMENTS ARE BELOW ) Joseph Weinstein Dual Systems Corp. 2530 San Pablo Ave. Berkeley, Ca. 94702 415-549-3854 Hi. This is a stab at some cheap marketing research. Would you be interested in a small, FAST UNIX desktop: * UNIX V.2.2 ( virtual memory ) with fast file system. * Motorola 68020 at 20 MHZ. VME bus-based. * 4 meg. on the C.P.U. * SCSI 80 Mbyte hard disk. * 60 meg. cartridge tape drive. * 4 ports. * Under $10,000 and no bigger than an IBM PC-AT ? Write me or call me. If I get enough yes votes, we're gonna build it. Thank You For Your Support... Joe Weinstein RESPONSES TO ISSUES RAISED: * The file system will be the 4.3 Fast File System! * Sys V UNIX seems to be emerging as the UNIX standard. (IEEE Std 1003.1) * A low-end Sun is DISKLESS! To get a disk you'd pay $7,000 more at least! * Cartridge is better than floppy with an 80Mbyte disk, so we go with it. * Ethernet will be supported at added cost for board and BSD-like software like rlogin, rcp etc. * We'll give you GNU EMACS with sub-process capability. * No graphics as of now... Sorry. maybe later. * Cost: OK, we'll dicker... Costs will drop. PLEASE RESPOND AGAIN AND I'LL ANSWER YOUR CRITIQUE INDIVIDUALLY.
hammond@petrus.UUCP (Rich A. Hammond) (07/01/86)
A recent survey posted by Joseph Weinstein asked: > Would you be interested in a small, FAST UNIX desktop: ... (specs for box) > > Write me or call me. If I get enough yes votes, we're > gonna build it. Of course, I'd be interested in such a box, BUT I wouldn't buy one! The question is not how many people are interested, but how many people are willing to budget/spend money on it. AT&T learned this the hard way (cost $) with the UNIX PC, I understand they bought quite a few from Convergent and got nice reviews, but no sales. Pity, it is a fairly nice box (if you put in more memory) for the price. Rich Hammond
jsq@im4u.UUCP (John Quarterman) (07/01/86)
>* Sys V UNIX seems to be emerging as the UNIX standard. (IEEE Std 1003.1)
System V != IEEE 1003.1.
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