Risc System/6000 (120MB disk feasibility)

[Marc J. Stephenson/140000;1C-22]

In article <1990Feb23.004045.26109 at sun.soe.clarkson.edu> abstine at image.soe.clarkson.edu (Arthur Stine) writes:
>From article <1596 at awdprime.UUCP>, by marc at stingray..austin.ibm.com (Marc J. Stephenson):
>> [My ill-fated video counter example]
>> 
>Is this to say that IBM thinks that people who need terminals at video
>checkout counters are going to buy RS/6000's? Come on, lets be real. If
>you want to be in that market, then fine. But if you want to be in the
>tech workstation market, then package the systems for it. The price/performance
>of the RS/6000 is nice, but the configuration is not. Throw away the ESDI and
>[diskless and SCSI recommendations deleted in the interest of space]
>
>-- 
>Art Stine
>Sr Network Engineer
>Clarkson U
>ABStine at CLVMS.Clarkson.Edu

Disclaimer:  I'm not in marketing and I can't say what market IBM is heading
for.  I'm a developer well-shielded from any of those decisions, and any
marketing directions which I opine about are truly my own.  All of the
development machines which my little area here use have SCSI and 16MB,
various tape drives, and Token-Ring.  Most of them are various forms of the
530 box.  I like them.  <-- Opinion :-)

Anyway, there are "oodles" of configurations available.  I would hope that
we have good solutions at good prices for the various computing situations
where workstations compete.  Seriously. 

By the way, the video checkout example (though I may have the facts a little
off, maybe they're doing video checkout and quantum mechanics :-)) is a
real-life RT example running COBOL.   What I meant was that there is a
market aside from the techie market.  I'm sure that my upper-level management
understands that the techie market is extremely important.

But once again, I'm no marketeer.  Let me escape back to the technical
questions, please...

As an aside, a lot of these questions have to do with the hardware rather than
AIX.  The comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt newgroup is being used along with this one for
hardware and system information.  I would hope that we will soon have enough
interest and questions to merit a new newsgroup for this information.  Neither
current newsgroup seems the proper place for this particular posting.  Anybody
want to take responsibility, or is it too soon?
start
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