[SunRescue] Low-Bandwidth X

[Joshua D. Boyd]

No, I don't.  I've talked to Symbolics about getting one, but they are
pretty expensive still (A UX400 is $750 and unsupported, a MacIvoryII is
600, but requires buying a now rare model of Mac and finding a new video
board and ethernet board for said rare machine, or a 3620 or 3650 which
while still single phase 120, draws enough amps that I'd have to add a new
circuit breaker, which probably won't go over well with the parents.
Plus, I'd still need to buy a console for that machine).

Symbolics machines don't look like they are likely to come down in price
anytime soon either.  I just wish that they would port their OS to linux
and lower the price.  Currently, I can buy the OS, but it requires a
DecAlpha running Dunix and it costs $5000.

Someday, maybe I'll have enough money to buy one, or maybe I'll find one
extra cheap.  Until then, I can only dream of what the machine must be
like to use.

--
Joshua Boyd

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 dave at cca.org wrote:

> jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu writes:
> 
> >Old software (NeWS, DPS, Symbolics Lisp( is one of my passions.
> 
> Do you have a running Symbolics machine? We have a 3600, but are
> still waiting to aquire the fileserver is was attached to, so haven't
> bothered playing with it yet.
> 
> --- david fischer --- dave at cca.org --- www.cca.org -----------------------
> ----------------------- I took one sample and interpolated from there. ---
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