hassell@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Christopher Hassell) (06/03/90)
I have a serious question now. I'm all the more jumpy now that I have heard the e-discounts are gonna bite it by the 30th. I am a SERIOUS UNIX(R) Hacker(TM). I am even interested in garbling around in assembly and rewriting the boot-up-ROM schtuff for the FUN of it. <while trying to keep a semblance of compatibility. I want to get a decent C compiler.. they write my own. Nothing speshul. My main criteria: Is a 512K A1000 worth it..... given need as a decent terminal/printstation, [NEEEED is the key word here, and I suppose it would be easy] as a C-compiling machine <for Amiga-PD programs mostly>, even as a hackible machine (for adding me own hw... after I've tamed parts of it of course) even some multi-tasking fool business? That is my main set of qwestions. I posted this to .hardware as well because that is where I hear the BIG dead-ends are. Consider as well, I MAY or MAY NOT have an actual Amiga-Keyboard. I might have to adapt an IBM <yuk>. I'm also happy with simply having access to Amiga-quality graphics of any sort. I'm looking into many things but all the Amigites I know have big chequebooks and were C= salesmen. You figger it out ("BUY THE 3000 NOW!! YOU GOT IT!! NOTHING ELSE IS TOLERABLE!"). OH ALSO: UNIX compatibility... as in uucp/nntp or any other connections possible are also a big question mark. For about $250. IF the situation is as bad as it seems, I spose I wanna see why. I am now a UNIXite who was an avid Apple-fan as many have been. Amiga is now de way to go mon. How bad does it look? I MAY have about $1000 disposable for this at the END of summer, but that is about it. Thanks for any all and spurious amounts of help. If someone starts a flame war over this because of machine-level-loyalty... my sinceremost threats to all his pets lives. Other than that.. sorry if there be offense. ### C>H> ### { uunet!rutgers!sunybcs , ncar , nbires } !boulder!tramp!hassell