mickey@axis.UUCP (03/24/87)
I am shortly going to join a new company who are going to take the plunge into the UNIX market. There first step is to buy a machine that runs UNIX for *DEVELOPMENT*. This machine will be used by 3 or 4 people for development work (accounting applications - boring stuff eh) I will be one of these people and thus want a decent machine. Anyone have any useful experience of suitables m/cs. Price must be in the range 200,000 to 300,000 French Francs (20000 to 30000 pounds sterling, don't know the dollar rate but thats about the price of the IBM PC/RT known as the IBM 6150 in Europe). Current candidates are the IBM RISC m/c and a Convergent m/c but am interested in others (I am used to VAXen abd PDPs so dont know the market using super-micros). PS Replies preferred from users, if suppliers wish to send me info do so to my home address:- M. J. Dance 36 Allee de la Banniere de Maupertuis Chevry II, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette FRANCE Olivetti and users of 3B machines need not reply (lousy performance/price ratio - just an opinion based on experience, mine!) Thanks in advance (please email me 'mickey@axis' and Ill summarise if number of replies and quality of response justifies it)