MCB%MIT-MC@sri-unix.UUCP (07/09/84)
From: Michael A. Bloom <MCB @ MIT-MC> Do you have a favorite small computer that runs UNIX? I intend to buy a machine running UNIX towards the end of the summer, and would like information to help me make a decision. Please tell me: What machines do you know of that have a decent UNIX implementation? What do you like best about it/them? What misfeatures are present? I'm particularly interested in info on 68K and 16032 based machines, but welcome info on others. 4.x would be a plus. So would a non-4.x system that nonetheless has job control. If you work for a manufacturer of UNIX based machines, send me a line about your product. If you own such a machine, please also write. If there is interest, I will summarize to the net. Thanks, Michael Bloom - mcb@mit-mc (arpa) - ..!vortex!ttidca!mab (uucp)
ZELLICH@SRI-NIC.ARPA@sri-unix.UUCP (07/16/84)
From: Rich Zellich <ZELLICH@SRI-NIC.ARPA> At the NCC last week, NBI was showing a nice system for $15,475, which was a 68010 running an apparently-total 4.2bsd port with a bit-mapped screen, 1 meg memory (2 meg optional), 22 (or 24?) meg Winchester, 640K floppy, and custom raster-ops processor. The bit-mapped screen was used for Star/Lisa/ MacIntosh style icons and overlapping windows; a separate process could be run in each window, and the system could also emulate a VT100 (and other terminals?) in a window connected to a mainframe while running local programs in other windows. Besides UUCP and cu, TCP/IP are also supported (as said above, apparently \all/ of 4.2 was ported). vi, ed, and ex are of course available, and I think emacs is, also. Oh yeah, the "U!" system also has a 3-button mouse. The literature, as I remember it (I haven't unpacked all the NCC stuff yet) compares the U! machine as slightly slower than a single-user VAX 11/750 and, in some cases, slightly faster than a 4-user 11/750. -Rich -------
msc@qubix.UUCP (Mark Callow) (07/24/84)
>> Rich Zellich <ZELLICH@SRI-NIC.ARPA> >> At the NCC last week, NBI was showing a nice system for $15,475, which >> was a 68010 running an apparently-total 4.2bsd port with a bit-mapped screen, >> 1 meg memory (2 meg optional), 22 (or 24?) meg Winchester, 640K floppy, and >> custom raster-ops processor. The bit-mapped screen was used for Star/Lisa/ >> MacIntosh style icons and overlapping windows; a separate process could be >> run in each window, and the system could also emulate a VT100 (and other >> terminals?) in a window connected to a mainframe while running local programs >> in other windows. Besides UUCP and cu, TCP/IP are also supported (as said >> above, apparently \all/ of 4.2 was ported). vi, ed, and ex are of course >> available, and I think emacs is, also. Oh yeah, the "U!" system also has >> a 3-button mouse. It sounds suspiciously like a Sun-2 running SunTools. Anyone know the real story? -- From the TARDIS of Mark Callow msc@qubix.UUCP, qubix!msc@decwrl.ARPA ...{decvax,ucbvax}!decwrl!qubix!msc, ...{amd,ihnp4,ittvax}!qubix!msc "Nothing shocks me. I'm an Engineer."
sunny@sun.uucp (Sunny Kirsten) (07/24/84)
Well, except that Sunstations use 1/4" QIC cartridge tapes, not sloppies.