POURNE@Mit-Mc.ARPA (04/10/84)
From: Jerry E. Pournelle <POURNE@Mit-Mc.ARPA> I feel a bit like Lincoln Steffans must have felt when he said "I have been over into the future, and it works!" That is: I've spent the weekend looking over the new AT&T 3B2/300 desktop mini, and I am blooming impressed. They have one-megabyte boards using 256 K chips (theirs) for $2400 quantity one now. Lord knows what quantity 1000 next year will cost. The WE 32000 is a heck of achip, and they had a full Unix system with about 30 jobs going at once, including their new WINDOWS software that runs buncha jobs on the same screen including debugger/job/source in different windows. I was impressd. Is there someone who knows a lot I don't who hasn't been? At $9950 for a half-meg memory 10K disk (+ floppy) plus one rs-232 and one centronics, it looks like a lotta bang for the buck...