cwc@uw-june (Winnie Chow) (04/06/84)
/**/ A friend with no access to the net is planning to buy a Unix workstation on which to do software development. He can't afford to make a mistake, so: can you make a recommen- dation? He likes the specs of the Callan, Charles River, Cadmus, the Intel 286/310, the Motorola VME-10, and the Logical Micro 16032 machine. But he needs to know about support, documentation, and service quality, software developer discounts, quality of debuggers and other development tools, etc. He says he's had terrible experience with a Fortune 32:16 in a previous job. Please reply by mail, and I'll summarize responses to the net. Thanks in advance.
AChen.PA@XEROX.ARPA (04/23/84)
I cannot recommend the Fortune 32:16, neither. I had some horrible experience with that machine before. The down fall of the highly anticiptated machine was supported by less than average system software; and their version of database management system (IDOL) was released with MAJOR bugs all over the places. I worked in the developmental world in C, which performed OK considering it got a 68000 in it. conclusion: stay away from Fortune 32:16. Arthur Chen