[comp.sys.workstations] Wanted: experiences with work stations as aid in a buying decision

ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) (03/16/88)

We're making a work station buying decision here at NCI; to add to
what I've learned from our benchmarks and the mounds of sales and
technical literature I've been reading, I'd appreciate learning of
other folks' experiences.

We're now running our image scanning, analysis, and display
applications on

* An 11/750 running MORE/bsd 4.3;
* a third-party 2048x2048, eight-gray-level scanner;
* and a third-party 512x512, eight-bit-plane, color display

We're after:

* At least eight million bytes of main memory
* At least 141 million bytes of secondary memory
* Backup medium
* At least 1024x700, eight-bit-plane, color display
* UNIX (AT&T registered trademark) or a cousin as the operating system
* Some place to attach a (2048x2048, eight-gray-level or better)
  scanner 
* At least 11/750 performance (which is a given these days, right?)

I'm cheap, and the system is likely to be duplicated elsewhere; a
low-cost, low-end box is better than a high-cost, high-end box.

Thanks!
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