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- From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard)
- Subject: Re: The new Acorn Machine
- In-Reply-To: r_voisey@csd.uwe.ac.uk's message of 17 Nov 92 11: 33:05 GMT
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 14:06:03 GMT
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- Having said that, you can get Linux for free - I believe someone is working
- on an X11R5 port for it as well. It's not in the class of SCO, but it's
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- That's been done for ages. You also left out 386BSD, which is what
- I'm using to post this article (using emacs + gnus [nntp] + X11R5 + SLIP
- link to internet). It works great, and is definately more usable than
- SCO (I've used everything from 1.0 to Beta ODT 2.1 and can vomit from
- experience). You need to factor in a lot more things than just OS though..
- For example, I wouldn't consider using X if I couldn't get the 1152x900 (x8)
- resolution I'm using at the moment - I don't think such resolutions are
- possible on the Arc. I don't know if RISCiX supports SLIP, probably.
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- I could put together a very usable unix system will all the features
- of the one I'm using (including decent graphics 1024x768x8 card + 17"
- color monitor) for less than 3500 sterling. If you take a 540 + RISCiX
- + monitor + >200MB SCSI drive, you're talking at least that much and
- you won't end up with quite as nice a unix system either, IMHO.
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- That all said, I hope to be the proud owner of an Arc soon and I'm NOT
- going to run RISCiX on it! RISCOS's nice WIMP interface is the whole
- reason I bought an Arc in the first place. Yes, X11 is very nice (I
- make my living writing applications for it), but it has a long ways to
- go in then application-side integration and ease-of-use dept.
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- If you really really want a true unix workstation, then buy a
- SparcStation classic LC or wait for HP's next low-end snake, I.E. buy
- a real workstation for it! Even a 486PC has some real problems in the
- graphics performance (to say nothing of hardware interoperability)
- dept, fancy S3 cards and whatnot notwithstanding.
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- Jordan
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