xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) (02/19/91)
jeenglis@alcor.usc.edu (English Guy) writes: > carasso@aludra.usc.edu (Roger RDC Carasso) > shows his complete ignorance of the hardware end of things: >> calkin@amix.commodore.com (Paul Calkin) writes: >>> West Chester, Pennsylvania - January 21, 1991 - Commodore Business >>> Machines, Inc., announced today the availability of the Amiga >>> 3000UX, a UNIX workstation implementing the new AT&T UNIX System V >>> Release 4. >> HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! HEE HEE! > Don't let Kent hear you say that. Much too late. I've been following the Amiga 3000UX development like a hawk. It's a really nice Unix; the folks developing it have been doing their development _under_ it for over a year now. Word is, SysVr4 incorporates "the best" of BSD 4.3 integrated with AT&T and SunOS versions of Unix. After a long evaluation and comparision the Engineering Department at Virginia Tech made the whole incoming freshman class beta testers for this machine; said it blew the '386 and Mac products out of the water on bang/$; even before there was a release vesion. The official release was at Uniforum, a couple of weeks back. >>> The Amiga provides the power of a Motorola processor to drive UNIX SVR4 >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> 8086? > No, Intel makes those. Where Bleah works. I would guess it's a 68020 > or a 68030. 68030, the high end machine is 25 MhZ clock, 80 nanosecond, 32 bit wide bus memory, up to 18 Mbyte on the motherboard. The software includes Gnu Emacs, GNU C, X Windows R11, lots of other goodies. Actually runs windowing X at a reasonably fast rate, unlike anything else available. >> Roger "next they'll be porting unix to Timex-Sinclair 1000's..." > alcor.usc.edu: mach > mc68020 > alcor.usc.edu: ^D > Now I realize that senescent crippled manic-depressive Amiga users are > one of the few segments of the population which you haven't yet pissed > off, Rog, but you're going to need to do a little more research before > you try this one. Not a problem; the only thing Roger says that I take half seriously is that he's horny all the time. By the way, the student discount version of this box can be had for $4K - $6K depending upon goodies. If I were living within my income, I'd spend some of what I'm living on instead for one of these toys. Kent, the man from xanth. <xanthian@Zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <xanthian@well.sf.ca.us>