Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site qubix.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!akgua!whuxle!harpo!decvax!decwrl!sun!idi!qubix!msc From: msc@qubix.UUCP (Mark Callow) Newsgroups: net.works Subject: Re: Unix Based Personal Machines (Works Digest V4 #30) Message-ID: <1288@qubix.UUCP> Date: Mon, 23-Jul-84 20:34:12 EDT Article-I.D.: qubix.1288 Posted: Mon Jul 23 20:34:12 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 30-Jul-84 00:45:06 EDT References: <2029@sri-arpa.UUCP> Organization: Qubix Graphic Systems, Saratoga, CA Lines: 22 >> Rich Zellich>> At the NCC last week, NBI was showing a nice system for $15,475, which >> was a 68010 running an apparently-total 4.2bsd port with a bit-mapped screen, >> 1 meg memory (2 meg optional), 22 (or 24?) meg Winchester, 640K floppy, and >> custom raster-ops processor. The bit-mapped screen was used for Star/Lisa/ >> MacIntosh style icons and overlapping windows; a separate process could be >> run in each window, and the system could also emulate a VT100 (and other >> terminals?) in a window connected to a mainframe while running local programs >> in other windows. Besides UUCP and cu, TCP/IP are also supported (as said >> above, apparently \all/ of 4.2 was ported). vi, ed, and ex are of course >> available, and I think emacs is, also. Oh yeah, the "U!" system also has >> a 3-button mouse. It sounds suspiciously like a Sun-2 running SunTools. Anyone know the real story? -- From the TARDIS of Mark Callow msc@qubix.UUCP, qubix!msc@decwrl.ARPA ...{decvax,ucbvax}!decwrl!qubix!msc, ...{amd,ihnp4,ittvax}!qubix!msc "Nothing shocks me. I'm an Engineer."