Amiga 3000UX & Sparc

[Kim Shearer]

In <1991Mar21.191653.26209 at sat.com> farren at sat.com (Michael J. Farren) writes:

>alexk at otc.otca.oz.au writes:
>>I'm looking for for a solution to this problem:
>>
>>The cheapest box running a "standard" Unix, X11 (and a good ~1000x900
>>display), and capable of compiling Gnu applications without too much
>>modification.

>I'd go for a 3000UX with the Hedley monitor, myself.

>>An Amiga would need an bigger display (expensive) and disk space?

>A2024 monitor isn't all THAT expensive.  And disk is getting cheap - how
>about 1Gbyte for ~$1500? (Rumor heard this morning - might not be true.)

>>SLC's have SunOS4.x standard and 1100x900 100dpi screen, 8MB (you need more),
>>X11; that's about US$6000 (SunOS5.0 probably will be SYSVR4)

>Might not be a bad choice - but watch out for gotchas.  For example, just
>how easy is it to add disk space (the basic SLC is diskless)?  On the older
>Suns, it wasn't hard, but you had to get a "shoebox", not just a disk.
>Little price increments sneak up on you fast!

>>But it seems that it would be hard to match on these goals.

>Depends on your goals.  The Suns are nice little boxes, to be sure - but
>for the low end, I think the A3000UX still is a win.  It isn't everything,
>but it's nicely balanced.


 I would hardly say that 16 Mb of memory and 400 Mb of disk is "low end".
 I am currently using an SLC with its standard 8 Mb and have no problems.

 If the monitor isnt all that expansive give us an idea.