Risc System/6000

[Steve Dyer]

8mb is probably tight for any current RISC machine.  But IBM's
entry level system for $13K is at least usable (if slower than
optimal) out of the box unlike the ridiculous low-ball prices
for Sun and DEC diskless machines which aren't usable unless you
have another big machine acting as a server out on your net.

I think IBM should be as accountable as any of the other players,
but I'm a little tired of hearing them be dragged over the coals
for practices which, if anything, are more generous than their
competition.  Sun OS 4.x has never been thought of as small,
yet you never heard the same bitching and kvetching when they
announced the SparcStation 1 with 8mb of memory and a 100+change
megabyte disk.

If you add more disk and memory, you still get something which
is as, if not more, competitive than what the competition offers now.

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Steve Dyer
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