In article <1148 at gort.cs.utexas.edu> jason at cs.utexas.edu (Jason Martin Levitt) writes:
|In article <5098 at brazos.Rice.edu> schafer at brazos.rice.edu (Richard A. Schafer) writes:
|>Powerstation 320 $7475
|>120MB disk $1950
|>Grayscale adapter $1395
|>keyboard $ 255
|>mouse $ 130
|>mono display $1295
|> ------ Hardware total, $12,500
|>AIX 3.0 $1250
|>AIX Xwindows $ 500
|> ------ Software total, $ 1,750
|> Package total, $14,250
|>
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|Add a SCSI adapter and large hard disk please == $$$$$.
OK, let's DO get real. Figure in a ~300 MB SCSI disk, not that
jive 120 MB unit. Also an ethernet card. And a SCSI 60MB tape
backup unit. I'm talking standalone or server systems.
And what is the resolution of that mono display? The size?
Now, what comes with the software? TCP/IP, I assume (what about rcp,
rsh (or rcmd), and the other remote commands?) What about
NFS? YP? SMTP-based mail? Sendmail? Developers' software (C, dbx,
sccs, yacc, lex, curses, etc)? Awk? uucp? An online, hypertext
information system? System administration package? SCSI tape
drivers? Easy addition of non-IBM SCSI disks? Troff?
What about net monitoring stuff (such as traffic, netstat, etc)?
What about something like sar (SV) or vmstat (4.x)? We never
found anything like that in the AIX for the PS/2. (IBM refuses
to list their add-on software in a fashion that makes sense to a
unix person, so you often can't tell whether you CAN get what you
want, even for more money.)
Which version of X are they supporting? How do they do on the X
benchmark that's been out on the net? Which X libraries do they provide?
What about clients?
In the past, IBM has been real big on unbundling (not that they
are the only ones). What did they do this time? In other words,
if we are going to compare the new RT++ to a Sun (or DEC, DG, HP,
whatever), let's be sure and compare equivalent systems.
Finally, has anybody done any independent benchmarks? I'd like to
see some comparisons against the competition by someone other than
IBM.
AN ASIDE
What about (yuk) DOS? Software (and hardware if necessary)
to run DOS. It's gross, I know, but it comes with some other
systems (or is available) and some people need it.
-Miles O'Neal
{yr fave backbone here}!emory!stiatl!meo