brett@smosjc.UUCP (Brett Coon) (02/09/90)
For the past 9 months, I have been Amiga-less, and, consequently, I haven't stayed current on Amiga developments. Now I am considering the purchase of another Amiga, and I was hoping I could get a summary of the current Amiga status. More specifically, I am interested in the following subjects: Amiga Unix: Is it available yet? How much does it cost? Are any windowing systems available? 68030 board: How fast is it really? Is it possible to write a program that uses the 68030 and the built-in 68000 concurrently? Do any programs use the MMU? Enhanced Chip Set: When will it be available? What will be involved in upgrading from the older chip set? Hard disks: I remember talk of problems with the Amiga hard disk controller several months ago when overscan video was used. Have these problems been resolved, or are third-party hard disk controllers recommended? I don't trust my news server to get anything posted to comp.sys.amiga, so please respond via e-mail to uunet!smosjc!brett. If anyone would like a summary of the responses I get, please e-mail requests to the same address. Thanks, Brett Coon