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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
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Posted: Mon Jul 23 20:34:12 1984
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Organization: Qubix Graphic Systems, Saratoga, CA
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>> 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?
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