mark@intek01.uucp (Mark McWiggins) (08/03/90)
Robert Burns at Technology Resource Center (1-800-433-4904) told me that they're planning to offer Intel V.4 in the fall at $995 2-user or $1295 unlimited user. (They had been planning to ship on August 15, but AT&T is delayed with their release for some reason, and apparently there's some agreement between Intel and AT&T that Intel won't ship until AT&T does.) Anyhow, this pricing looks more like something I can live with, and Mr. Burns seemed to be an all-around reasonable guy. (i.e. he agreed with me. :) ) I had an extensive conversation again yesterday with the lady from UHC, and it was pretty unsatisfying for both of us. She offered her product at $1995, but didn't grok my desire for a low-cost no-documentation kernel-only license. We do industrial automation, and a lean, clean, mean, soft-real-time, multitasking machine is what we need, but we can't pay $2000/node for the OS. Maybe I wasn't communicating clearly, but she just was adding up items from the price sheet: "No, $895 for the basic OS and another $895 for TCP/IP networking; that's the best we can do." Also, she was also quoting an August 15 release date, so I wouldn't be surprised if they're committed to wait for AT&T as well. I spoke with a guy at Mt. Xinu who said that they'll be releasing a binary Mach for the 386 this fall some time. I don't have details on this, but he's supposed to call me. Interesting times we live in. :) -- Mark McWiggins Integration Technologies, Inc. (Intek) +1 206 455 9935 DISCLAIMER: I could be wrong ... 1400 112th Ave SE #202 Bellevue WA 98004 uunet!intek01!mark Ask me about C++!
bill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion) (08/04/90)
In article <1990Aug2.181706.6215@intek01.uucp-> mark@intek01.uucp (Mark McWiggins) writes:
->
->I had an extensive conversation again yesterday with the lady from UHC,
->and it was pretty unsatisfying for both of us. She offered her product
->at $1995, but didn't grok my desire for a low-cost no-documentation
->kernel-only license. We do industrial automation, and a lean, clean,
->mean, soft-real-time, multitasking machine is what we need, but we can't
->pay $2000/node for the OS. Maybe I wasn't communicating clearly, but
->she just was adding up items from the price sheet: "No, $895 for the
->basic OS and another $895 for TCP/IP networking; that's the best we
->can do."
Just a thought - there is the possibility she was quoting from the wrong
sheet. I saw a UHC machine running about 2 months ago and couldn't
believe just how fast it was. Then I found out it was sys V.4 running on
an iNTEL i860. The box had a 25mHz 486, and the i860, and the 860 was
running (by eyeball timing) about 5 to 7 times faster than the 486 side on
Mandelbrot sets. (This of course was a demo used to make the machine look
good). Have no more info than that.
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