AT&T WGS 6386

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In article <332 at pyuxf.UUCP>, daveb at pyuxf.UUCP (david berk) writes:
> Has anyone seen any reviews of the 6386 machine.
> I'm looking into the possibility of purchasing
> one.  Anyone have any information about the
> different models of this machine that are being
> offered?  Comments/Reccomendations anyone?
> 
> Dave Berk
> ..!ihnp4!pyuxf!daveb

John Blair has written a sterling review of the AT&T 6386 WGS running AT&T's
own 386 UNIX System V Release 3.1 in the June '88 issue of UNIX World. Some
clips from his article,

"The 6386 is speedy. On some commercially available benchmarks, the 6386
 runs an average of twice as fast as the Compaq 386 and IBM PS/2 Model 80.
 And on other tests, four times as fast in floating point calculations."

"Under DOS, the 6386 comes out several points ahead of both on the Norton
 System Index."

"The 6386 represents the best fit of UNIX to the architecture of the 80386
 and support chips."

Of added interest, Blair notes in a sidebar article that all utilities in
the AT&T 386 UNIX System V Release 3.1 System are in 386 object code format.
This was not the case in other commercially available systems ported to the
386 including SCO XENIX.