robin@itcatl.UUCP (Robin Cutshaw) (01/28/86)
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I just got a copy of the "official" IBM blurb on the PC RT (32 pages). A
S-word load of products were announced along with the 3 basic boxes.
RT mod 10 (desktop, 40Meg) $11700
RT mod 20 (standalone, 40Meg) 14945
RT mod 25 (standalone, 70Meg) avail 3Q 17940
advanced mono/graph disp 610
advanced color/graph disp 1550
extended mono/graph disp 1150
streamer 55Meg 1795
1MB memory 1700
2MB memory 2995
40MB fixed disk 2295
70MB fixed disk 3995
floating point accel. 850
AT coprocessor board 995
streamer adpt 430
4-port async 425
advanced mono adpt 775
extended mono adpt 1450
advanced color adpt 1350
RT Virtual Resource Manager (VRM) 1000
AIX 3400
data management 500
sql 1000
AT coprocessor services 550
3278/9 emulation 500
samna+ 1295
uniras packages
solomon III acct packages
applix IA
Note that warrantee is on-site for all hardware for 12 mos. Model 25 and
associated hardware (advanced color/extended mono/70MB disk) are to be
available 3Q86 as well as some of the application software. The model 20
may be expanded to 180MB of disk storage (40/70/70) and the model 25 may
have 3 70MB disks (210MB max). The streaming tape is fully supported by
AIX. Basic, Pascal, Fortran were also released. Also note that the
distribution chain will not be the same as that for the other PC series.
DAVAR's will not be supported and not all dealers will qualify.
The RT may have as many as eight users and may be expanded to 4MB of
physical memory and 1 Terabyte of virtual memory. DOS applications
may run on the AT coprocessor board concurrently with AIX. The AIX
implementation is based on AT&T System V release 1 with "chosen" SVR2
and BSD4.2 enhancements.
General availability of the model 10 and 20 will be in March.
-robin ( ..{gatech,akgua}!itcatl!robin )bruce@factron.uucp (Bruce Barnett) (02/04/86)
In article <110@itcatl.UUCP> robin@itcatl.UUCP (Robin Cutshaw) writes: > >I just got a copy of the "official" IBM blurb on the PC RT (32 pages). > >The RT may have as many as eight users and may be expanded to 4MB of >physical memory and 1 Terabyte of virtual memory. Really? I wonder if many systems are going to have 14,000+ 70 meg disks :-) Bruce Barnett
joel@peora.UUCP (Joel Upchurch) (02/05/86)
>>The RT may have as many as eight users and may be expanded to 4MB of >>physical memory and 1 Terabyte of virtual memory. > >Really? I wonder if many systems are going to have 14,000+ 70 meg disks :-) > > Bruce Barnett After spending 20 years trying to work around the limitations of the 360 architecture and several on the 8086, I guess this time they decided not to take any chances this time. |-) If you extrapolate the trends for the last 4 or 5 years out to 1990 or so the more powerful personal computers will have 16 megabytes of memory and gigabytes of disk storage. If you start thinking about the year 2000 then these limits are not ludicrous at all. -- Joel Upchurch @ CONCURRENT Computer Corporation (A Perkin-Elmer Company) Southern Development Center 2486 Sand Lake Road/ Orlando, Florida 32809/ (305)850-1031 {decvax!ucf-cs, ihnp4!pesnta, vax135!petsd}!peora!joel