3B1 Rising Popularity

[Ron Bean]

In Article <37826 at cup.portal.com>, thad at cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
writes:
 
>Veddy, veddy inneresting.  It DEFINITELY appears there's a huge, untapped
>market for low-priced and reliable UNIX systems.  I wonder if AT&T's gonna
>be sorry they dropped the 3B1/UNIXPC/PC7300 because it seems that NOW is the
>time they should be selling them.  I'm now getting 5-10 phone calls a DAY from
>people asking where they can buy these systems.
 
   Of course, if the 7300/3B1 wasn't an orphan, it wouldn't
necessarily be low-priced. Are there *any* 68010-based Unix
systems still in production?
 
   I once asked the net why people didn't make little
daughter-boards to replace a 68000 with a 68010+MMU, and use them
to make useable computers out of all those cheap 68000 boxes.
People kept saying "why not just use a 68030 instead?" Fine, if
you've got money to burn, but some of us don't...
 
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