depeche@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca (Sam Alan EZUST) (10/29/89)
I hear that there will be two versions of the tt: one "tower" model very much reminicent of the model 80 and another "desktop" model.... Apparently, the tower comes with more memory than the desktop, and maybe a larger hard disk.... that's nice. but my father read me aloud an ST-World article about this infamous computer where I thought i heard this: THE DESKTOP MODEL WILL NEVER WORK WITH UNIX only the TOWER will.... if this is true, WHY????? In what other ways will the two versions be non software compatible??
Henry_Burdett_Messenger@cup.portal.com (11/09/89)
Richard Covert writes: > Ken, I have made this comment on GEnie, but briefly I think that the > TT could be a killer machine if two things are done: > 1) It must be an OPEN system with plenty of card slots for third party vendor > addons. This is really an important feature for an expensive workstation > class machine. Why? DEC and Sun have a serious lock on this market, and they both sell *lots* of workstations without any busses at all. > 2) It must have AT&T System V Release 4.0 UNIX with X Windows. AT&T has > publicly announced binary compatibility between all Sys V Rel 4 UNIX > on the same cpu. So, with X Windows you have a common platform to develop > applications for many different machines. This means that the TT Tower > could run programs from Sun or maybe even Apple. It's 1989 and UN*X still sucks. Maybe someday it will grow up and become a real operating system. When it gets a distributed lock manager and indexed files and asynchronous system traps and... I'm not interested in an OS that was designed as a word processing system for secretaries in the Dark Ages of Computing. > I have heard rumors that Atari is going to buy some strange non-AT&T UNIX > type OS w/o X Windows. The X Window System (_not_ "X Windows", there is no such thing) will run under MANY OSs. It is not, by any means, limited to UN*X. It runs perfectly well under God's Own Operating System, VMS. > Especially if the TT/Tower is cheaper > then a Sun or an Apple Mac A/UX system. Well, when THEY can get cheaper than a DECstation 3100, please let me know. And I guarantee you that MIPS processor will eat the Sun's lunch, let alone a Macintosh... - hbm ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry B. Messenger henry_burdett_messenger@cup.portal.com Digital Equipment Corporation isn't responsible for anything I say on Usenet "Hello, I know that you've been feeling tired. I bring you love and deeper understanding."
neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth) (03/25/91)
Is it possible to buy a TT and run Unix (and possibly) X Windows right now as I type? And again, is the LAN port being used yet? +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ! DISCLAIMER:Unless otherwise stated, the above comments are entirely my own ! ! ! ! Neil Forsyth JANET: neil@uk.ac.hw.cs ! ! Dept. of Computer Science ARPA: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk ! ! Heriot-Watt University UUCP: ..!ukc!cs.hw.ac.uk!neil ! ! Edinburgh, Scotland, UK "That was never 5 minutes!" ! +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
s37837k@saha.hut.fi (Jari Lehto) (03/29/91)
In article <2620@odin.cs.hw.ac.uk> neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth) writes: > >Is it possible to buy a TT and run Unix (and possibly) X Windows right now >as I type? And again, is the LAN port being used yet? > First to LAN: If you use Spectre, the Mac-emulator in your TT, you can use LAN as AppleTalk, just plug and play, it is 100% compatible! Other ways: I haven't found anything yet... And Unix: My friend received mail from his friend, and there was following information: 200Mb harddisk with Unix installed -> to replace the TT internal drive = $1600.00 I hope I remember correctly. I don't remember any details about this Unix-package... Jartsu *** Jari Lehto, jartsu@otax.hut.fi, s37837k@saha.hut.fi ***