Purchase of new A/UX Machine
Jordan Hayes
jordan at Morgan.COM
Tue Oct 9 00:49:55 AEST 1990
Peter Steinauer <peter at boulder.Colorado.EDU> writes:
[ wants an A/UX mac on the cheap ]
Do it incrementally. It may cost you more in the long run, but you'll
have a functional machine sooner. Get a used MacII. You can get these
for at least $1k cheaper than any of the current models, and it's quite
adequate for A/UX. $2k. Buy Virtual with the PMMU, since that seems
the cheapest way to get one (unless the MacII you buy already has
one). It's about $170 mail order. Get more memory. If it has 1Mb,
throw it away and get 8Mb for about $325 ($39 x 8?). Get A/UX for
about $700, find a friend who has instaled before and get them to do it
for you instead of buying manuals. Buy her dinner. $30. Get a 105Mb
disk for about $600. Buy it as an external and buy your own case, put
it together yourself. Cheaper that way. Sell your Plus for about
$800, unless there's a hard disk too, in which case adjust
accordingly. $3k total.
I put all of the X11R4 distribution (binary -- you won't have room for
source) plus gcc, g++, and emacs in about 30Mb. 105Mb should be fine
for now. Maybe you'll have a 40Mb internal already from the MacII.
That can house your current Mac stuff. You can also cut down on the
number of fonts you have and the X clients you want to run. Get rid of
lots of stuff on the A/UX disk that you won't use -- yet.
Later, upgrade to an FX (since you have a II, not a cx or a ci), add
more disk, bring back manual pages, maybe even buy some manuals. Take
your time and your budget won't notice as much.
/jordan
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