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From: optimal@babss.UUCP (Optimal Computer)
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Subject: Re: PC-Clone UNIX hardware buying advice:
Message-ID: <1632@b1.babss.UUCP>
Date: 18 Feb 93 20:38:33 GMT
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Organization: Optimal Computer
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In article <863i028b36f=01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> ssl20@RUTS.ccc.amdahl.com () writes:
>
>I am shopping around for a 486 machine to run Interactive
>UNIX.
>
I use Technology Power Enterprises motherboards, Buslogic scsi boards,
and Orchid PDiis video cards to build ISC workstations.

If you want to save a couple hundred bucks you can even use a 386/40.
I'm running X with 8mb memory and it works just fine.


John H. Wadsworth        Optimal Computer      optimal%babss.UUCP@cs.yale.edu
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