dkelly@npiatl.UUCP (Dwight Kelly) (05/02/89)
In everyone's personal opinion, what is the hottest workstation
currently available for around $10,000-12,000? Need Unix (SV or BSD), TCP/IP,
NFS, and graphics (prefer 8bit color). I already have a great RGB 24'' monitor
and a 600mb SCSI.
What are used Sun 3s going for? Anyone sell used Suns?
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Publisher of "The Real Estate Book" nationwide!mic@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Mic Lacey) (05/04/89)
Hewlett Packard has a good looking 68030 worksataion out. They rate it as a 4 mip box. It comes with 4 meg, expandable to 16, ethernet port, ieee 488 port, serial port, TC/IP, NFS, X11, and HP-UX (SYSV Unix). It has a real good price, for a 16" mono it is about $6,000 (I think, but I don't have my price list here right now) for a 16" color it is $8,500 (list). Also HP is now selling their workstaions through distributers, who I expect will be able to discount the price. A SCSI interface card is extra, $1,500. -Mic Lacey
johnr@ogccse.ogc.edu (John Roberts) (05/05/89)
In article <369@npiatl.UUCP>, dkelly@npiatl.UUCP (Dwight Kelly) writes: > In everyone's personal opinion, what is the hottest workstation > currently available for around $10,000-12,000? Need Unix (SV or BSD), TCP/IP, > NFS, and graphics (prefer 8bit color). I already have a great RGB 24'' monitor Without a doubt..... The Cogent XTM workstation!!! For around $20K you get two Inmos T800 transputers each with 4 Mbytes of RAM, a 90 Mbyte hard drive, an 800K floppy drive and a 1024 by 808 by 256 grey scale monitor. However the most important thing about the system is that it is scalable! You can attach a "resource server" with more processors (and memory). The operating system has built into it a communication system called "Linda" which makes parallel programming much easier than other parallel machines. The operating system is highly compatible with Unix System V. John Roberts johnr@ogccse.ogc.edu
dds@spsd.uu.net (Dennis D. Sherod) (05/13/89)
In article <2565@ogccse.ogc.edu> johnr@ogccse.ogc.edu (John Roberts) writes: >In article <369@npiatl.UUCP>, dkelly@npiatl.UUCP (Dwight Kelly) writes: >> In everyone's personal opinion, what is the hottest workstation >> currently available for around $10,000-12,000? Need Unix (SV or BSD), TCP/IP, >> NFS, and graphics (prefer 8bit color). I already have a great RGB 24'' monitor > >Without a doubt..... The Cogent XTM workstation!!! > >For around $20K you get two Inmos T800 transputers each with 4 Mbytes of >RAM, a 90 Mbyte hard drive, an 800K floppy drive and a 1024 by 808 by 256 Didn't I hear $10,000 - $12,000? According to the April issue of MIPS Magazine the hottest workstation box today is the AV-300 (DG Maverick 88K). AND the price is right... -- Dennis Sherod, Data General Corporation UUCP: ..!uunet!spsd!dds 1224-B Village Way, Santa Ana, CA 92705 ARPA: sherod_d@sdsa01.CEO.DG.COM FAX: +1 714 835 6995 VOICE: +1 714 835 3583