second thoughts on buying a 3000UX

[Travis Bissett]

scotte at applix.com (Scott Evernden) writes:

> In the end, I decided to brew myself a 486/33 box.  It has up to now,
> satisified these requirements (and others) for X and unix development
> purposes.
> 
> -scott
> 
> Flames, anyone?

Damned right! Flame (1): Ya should a got da SPARC 2 with extra goodies. Dat 
486 jest ain't got da right stuff. Fame (2): after payin' all dat moola for 
a fast 486 you'r gonna wish ya saved it and got a '3500/ux with dat 68040 
an' symmetric coprocessin' an' all dat. Ya coulda used da cash you'd a saved 
to buy even bigger hard drive -- nobody ever had too mcuh scuzzy. Like, you  
coulda bought a separate scuzzy controller and drive and had the swap area 
on its own parallel channel -- big improvement there for extra cash! OK, I 
know the 68040 machine has yet to be roomered let alone announced -- and a 
person can gradutate from a vic20 to an A3000 and grow a beard in the time 
it has taken C=A to go from concept to production for most things. That was 
then. Maybe now things will pick up the pace? How 'bout an A4000/UX with a 
couple of MC88K chips in it?

All opinions above are humbly mine and due to their inflammatory nature I 
will not sign my name....(gawk! hit the sigline off! argh!...

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