fmcphers@VTTCF.CC.VT.EDU (Frank McPherson) (11/12/90)
As an impartial reader of the review of Amiga Unix posted under this subject, I have one observation. The reviewer had no comments about Unix. He was concerned mostly with the Xwindowing system, which is, of course, not necessary to run Unix. Now, as a very opininated observor, I'd like to make some comments of my own. I've owned an Amiga 3000UX since August 25th this year, and have been programming extensively on it in assembly and C the entire time. I haven't put the thing through heavy use so I can't say how it performs under pressure, but for the programming I've been using it for, I've been very satisfied. I have 5 megs of real memory (what we'd call RAM on a personal computer. <grin>) and (I believe) a ten meg swap space on my 105 meg quantum which is used for mem paging. It's still pretty quick. ~500 line C programs will generally compile in well under thirty seconds. Sorry I can't give any more help, but I'm an AmigaDOS user at heart. I love using Unix to work on, but I'd just as soon not have it on my personal home computer. I like ADos much better. (I had a 1000 for three years before I got the 3000UX) -- Frank McPherson INTERNET: fmcphers@vttcf.cc.vt.edu -- =============================================================================