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- From: gilbertd@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (David Alan Gilbert)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: The new Acorn Machine
- Message-ID: <gilbertd.721643489@p4.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 08:31:29 GMT
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- In <10942@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> gpalmer@cs.strath.ac.uk (Gary J Palmer IE91) writes:
-
- >Personally, i think that RISCiX is overpriced, and comes with too much...
- >if Acorn got rid of the Motif / X.desktop bundle, and perhaps made NFS,
- >TCP/IP (is SLIP available under RISCiX??) and similar optional, I'm sure
- >that for about 100 pounds for the base package, I'd buy it.....
-
- I agree, I commented to an Acorn representative at the BAU show,
- that I could buy a 386 (or even a 486) and get a free unix clone
- for less than I could buy RISCiX (including X).
-
- I dont know what the price of commercial Unix's are for PC's,
- but I suspect a reasonable 386 could be purchased with Unix
- for less than RISCiX.
-
- The other point is that if RISCiX was a LOT cheaper,
- and it was available for the A5000, they would have the
- cheapest Unix workstation going, and I know a lot
- of people who would be pleased with it.
-
- Of course one of the problems is the complete lack of
- compatibility with anything except Acorns SCSI card,
- thats why I believe they should give the tools for
- building the kernel with RISCiX (I dont think they
- do at the moment), and then 3rd parties would
- write drivers for their cards.
-
- I dont need all the snazy Motif/X package - as long
- as the device drivers are there, and gave a set
- of patches which could be given to the standard
- X distribution - then we could all compile it up ourselves.
-
- Dave
-
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