liggio@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Vincent Liggio) (01/02/90)
I need some help on purchasing a 386 machine. Does anyone have any ideas for a good system with the following specs? - 2-4 megs memory, expandable on board - 25 Mhz or 33 Mhz, with 32k cache - somewhere around a 152M, 17ms ESDI HD - 360k & 1.44Mb floppy drives - 60Mb tape backup - 80387 coprocessor - paper white monitor/vga adapter - mouse I have seen an AST 386/33 Model 5, w/2Mb memory and a 110 Mb hard drive, for $6,000. (Tape drive, coprocessor, and monitor extra, about $1,000) Any good? -Vince +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | USPS : 504/5 Wien Hall, 411 West 116th Street, New York, NY 10027 | | INTERNET : liggio@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu | | BITNET : liggio@cunixf.bitnet | | UUCP : {rutgers,topaz}!columbia!cunixf!liggio | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
larry@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder) (01/02/90)
> I have seen an AST 386/33 Model 5, w/2Mb memory and a 110 Mb hard drive, > for $6,000. (Tape drive, coprocessor, and monitor extra, about $1,000) You could either spend the money and get a system build to your specs - or save some $$ and build the system yourself. I am running with an AMI motherboard (386/25) with 8 megs of 80ns 1meg DRAMS on the motherboard and haven't had any problems running DOS, Xenix or Unix. -- Larry Snyder, Northern Star Communications, Notre Dame, IN USA uucp: larry@nstar -or- ...!iuvax!ndmath!nstar!larry "NO! QNX is non-standard, not compatible, and is no more Unix than DOS!"