Academic workstations : Macintosh ...

[Dirk Grunwald]

In article <1209 at uvm-gen.UUCP> cavrak at uvm-gen.UUCP (Steve Cavrak,113 Waterman,6561483,) writes:

   1.  when they're "obsolete" as unix workstation, they can be recycled
       as "plain" Macintosh's and sold to "ordinary people".  There is


I hate to tell you, but if you've ever used the apple UNIX, you'd know that
it's *already* obsolete. If you're looking for a color box that runs UNIX
*and* runs standard micro software, go for a '386 box, or a Sun-386i instead.

We have several Apple-IIx's running AU/X, and it's *awful*. The compiler
sucks and the machine is basically slow.
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Dirk Grunwald -- Univ. of Illinois 		  (grunwald at flute.cs.uiuc.edu)