meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal) (02/21/90)
In article <1148@gort.cs.utexas.edu> jason@cs.utexas.edu (Jason Martin Levitt) writes: |In article <5098@brazos.Rice.edu> schafer@brazos.rice.edu (Richard A. Schafer) writes: |>Powerstation 320 $7475 |>120MB disk $1950 |>Grayscale adapter $1395 |>keyboard $ 255 |>mouse $ 130 |>mono display $1295 |> ------ Hardware total, $12,500 |>AIX 3.0 $1250 |>AIX Xwindows $ 500 |> ------ Software total, $ 1,750 |> Package total, $14,250 |> | |Add a SCSI adapter and large hard disk please == $$$$$. OK, let's DO get real. Figure in a ~300 MB SCSI disk, not that jive 120 MB unit. Also an ethernet card. And a SCSI 60MB tape backup unit. I'm talking standalone or server systems. And what is the resolution of that mono display? The size? Now, what comes with the software? TCP/IP, I assume (what about rcp, rsh (or rcmd), and the other remote commands?) What about NFS? YP? SMTP-based mail? Sendmail? Developers' software (C, dbx, sccs, yacc, lex, curses, etc)? Awk? uucp? An online, hypertext information system? System administration package? SCSI tape drivers? Easy addition of non-IBM SCSI disks? Troff? What about net monitoring stuff (such as traffic, netstat, etc)? What about something like sar (SV) or vmstat (4.x)? We never found anything like that in the AIX for the PS/2. (IBM refuses to list their add-on software in a fashion that makes sense to a unix person, so you often can't tell whether you CAN get what you want, even for more money.) Which version of X are they supporting? How do they do on the X benchmark that's been out on the net? Which X libraries do they provide? What about clients? In the past, IBM has been real big on unbundling (not that they are the only ones). What did they do this time? In other words, if we are going to compare the new RT++ to a Sun (or DEC, DG, HP, whatever), let's be sure and compare equivalent systems. Finally, has anybody done any independent benchmarks? I'd like to see some comparisons against the competition by someone other than IBM. AN ASIDE What about (yuk) DOS? Software (and hardware if necessary) to run DOS. It's gross, I know, but it comes with some other systems (or is available) and some people need it. -Miles O'Neal {yr fave backbone here}!emory!stiatl!meo