earle@jplopto.uucp (Greg Earle) (10/21/87)
In article <147000004@tiger.UUCP> rjd@tiger.UUCP writes: >>> So buy a 3B2!!! You need one anyway!! >> Hate to burst your bubble, but if I had the $10,000 for a 3b2, there is a >> whole host of other machines in that price range which provide more bang for >> the buck, with a better version of Unix, too (Pet Peeve #123123). Ain't no way >> that the poor old WE CPU in the 3b2 is gonna keep up with no 16mhz >> 68020... > Piddly 16 Mhz? Guess you missed the model 600 announcement (not to mention > the capabilities with the coprocessor option). Better version of Unix??? > You're cracked. Maybe not $10,000, but still better for the money. Oh good grief.* A 3-MIPS Sun-3/60 with 16" color monitor retails for $9900 sans disk. If like a lot of places you get 20% or 30% educational discount, this knocks it down to $7K or $8K; add a 3rd party SCSI disk & tape and you might have nudged past the $10K mark in cost, but you've blasted past the 3B2 in capability (and general wonderfulness). And color besides. "You're cracked."? Don't make me laugh; `System V - consider it sub-standard' ... Since this has nothing to do with binaries vs. source from the AT&T Toolchest, and is veering dangerously towards rehashing the `Small Cheap UNIX boxes?' discussion of late, followups redirected to comp.misc and out of sources.d. (*"Oh good grief" may or may not be a trademark of Guy Harris.) Greg Earle earle@jplopto.JPL.NASA.GOV S(*CENSORED*)t earle%jplopto@jpl-elroy.ARPA [aka:] Rockwell International earle%jplopto@elroy.JPL.NASA.GOV Seal Beach, CA ...!cit-vax!elroy!smeagol!jplopto!earle