From: ····@umbc4.umbc.edu (Alex S. Crain)
Hmm. But Isn't mach a freebie for the decstation?
I think Mach is free for Decstation, but I'm not 100% sure. (Different
research group.) Some companies don't want to mess with Mach, since Ultrix
is the officially supported system.
DECStation 2100 $1400
8Mb memory from 3rd party $500
200Mb SCSI disk $400
MACH 3.0 free
CMU CL free
It'll run rings around a mac2, and you get a decent (19" mono) monitor to boot.
You'll want 16 meg of memory or more to run CMU CL and X at the same time
without a lot of paging. Still, memory gets cheaper every day...
-- Scott
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