Need info for initial SUN purchase

[Gary Lang]

In article <5134 at brazos.Rice.edu>, dlarson at blake.acs.washington.edu (Dale Larson) writes:
> Given that I need to purchase the machine myself and that my budget will
> break in the fairly low thousands, I think that a used SUN may well be the
> right choice.  Am I wrong?  If not, just what should I be able to do with
> the box?  Open Look? (What would a bare bones system be?)  Most recent

I would say - get a NeXT machine. It's a Unix box that thinks you're a PC
user. It's cheaper than almost all similarly configured Suns except used
ones, and already has more GUI software running on it.  Check it out.

[[But can you run X on a NeXT? -bdg]]