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Xref: sserve comp.unix.wizards:26462 comp.unix.bsd:3414 Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!darwin.sura.net!europa.asd.contel.com!uunet!nic.unh.edu!newshost.unh.edu!rg From: rg@msel.unh.edu (Roger Gonzalez) Subject: Have $8000, what to buy? Message-ID: <RG.92Aug10111713@nymph.msel.unh.edu> Sender: news@newshost.unh.edu (USENET News System) Organization: UNH Marine Systems Engineering Lab Distribution: comp Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 16:17:13 GMT Lines: 32 I want a Unix machine. Now. I want BSD features. I want full networking. I want X11R5. I want color. I want at least 1.2Gb of disk, and 16Mb of memory. I have $8000, and won't be able to add much more for at least a year. I may qualify for Sun's developer discount. I'm willing to go 3rd party for peripherals. What should I buy? Sparc IPC? Iris Indigo? A HP? A PC (shudder) with BSDI? A NeXT? A Mac with A/UX? I only know that I can pick up an IPC for about $5000 after discount, and then use $3000 for buying peripherals. Who else has deals like that? Personality features: I want a programmer-friendly machine, (i.e. doesn't have to be user-friendly.) I like machines with nifty goo-gaws like sound. I want something I can grab stuff off then net and build with minimum headache. I want something reliable. Enlighten me. -Roger -- "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim" - Edsger W. Dijkstra Roger Gonzalez - rg@msel.unh.edu Division of Bit Banging and Reluctant Robotics UNH Marine Systems Engineering Laboratory, Durham, NH 03824-3525 (603) 862-4600 -4399 (fax)