Tyler Sarna <tsarna@polar.bowdoin.edu> (05/18/91)
Hello all! I've been wondering about the size and shape of the
Amiga Minix community, and a survey sounded like a good way to
find out. Please fill out the form below, even if you don't yet
own Minix for the Amiga. Please send replies to *ME ONLY*, I
will boil the results down and post a summary, along with
whatever interesting statistics I can come up with. Thanks.
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1A) What are your name and e-mail address?
1B) Of what nationality are you?
1C) What is your status of ownership of Amiga Minix?
a) I own it.
b) Plan to buy it.
c) Interested, but not certain.
2A) What Amiga model(s) do you own?
a) A1000
b) A500
c) A2000-A (early German model)
d) A2000-B (normal A2000)
e) A2500/20 or A2000 with A2620
f) A2500/30 or A2000 with A2630
g) A2000 with non-Commodore accelerator (specify below)
h) A3000-16
i) A3000-25 (any model)
j) CDTV (!)
k) other (!?!?) [please specify]
2B) What Amiga models are you planning to buy within the
near future?
Same choices as above, plus:
l) A3000T
m) A3500 (?) (Amiga with 040)
3A) How much chip memory do you have?
a) 512K
b) 1M
c) 2M
d) other (?) [specify how much and how]
3B) Do you have and slow-fast memory (Old A500 with A501)
a) 0K
b) 512K
c) other (?) [specify...]
3C) How much 16-bit fast memory do you have?
3D) How much 32-bit wide memory located below 0x00FFFFFF do
you have?
3E) How much 32-bit wide memory above 0x00FFFFFF do you have?
4A) If you own a non-Commodore accelerator, who produces it?
4B) What CPU does it use? What FPU (if any)? At what clock
rate does it run? If it's an 020, does it have a MMU
chip?
5A) Do you own a hard disk controller?
5B) If so, who produces it?
5C) What kind of interface does it use?
a) SCSI
b) IDE
c) other (specify)
5D) How many hard disks do you have? How large is each one?
6) What other peripherals does your system have? Specify
the manufacturer and model. (Include video boards,
extra floppy drives, network adapters, multiserial
cards, etc.)
7) For what purpose do you use/intend to use Minix?
(choose all that apply)
a) Learn Unix
b) Program Unix-like system
c) Kernel hacking
d) BBS system
e) Network environment
f) General-purpose system.
g) Other (specify)
8) What additional feature might you like to see in minix?
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Thank you for responding.
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Tyler "Ty" Sarna tsarna@polar.bowdoin.edu
"Navy. It's not just a job, it's 8.76 a week." -SNLvodall@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Bill Vodall) (05/21/91)
/ hpfcso:comp.os.minix / tsarna@polar.bowdoin.edu (Tyler Sarna) / 1:20 pm May 17, 1991 /
Hello all! I've been wondering about the size and shape of the
Amiga Minix community, and a survey sounded like a good way to
find out. Please fill out the form below, even if you don't yet
own Minix for the Amiga. Please send replies to *ME ONLY*, I
will boil the results down and post a summary, along with
whatever interesting statistics I can come up with. Thanks.
---------------------------------------------------------------
1A) What are your name and e-mail address?
Bill Vodall - vodall@hpfcla.hp.fc.com
1B) Of what nationality are you?
human
1C) What is your status of ownership of Amiga Minix?
a) I own it.
2A) What Amiga model(s) do you own?
a) A1000
2B) What Amiga models are you planning to buy within the
near future?
none -
3A) How much chip memory do you have?
a) 512K
3B) Do you have any slow-fast memory (Old A500 with A501)
none
3C) How much 16-bit fast memory do you have?
16 bit? I don't know. I do have the Microbotics Starboard II with
2 Mbytes for 2.5 Mbytes total.
3D) How much 32-bit wide memory located below 0x00FFFFFF do
you have?
3E) How much 32-bit wide memory above 0x00FFFFFF do you have?
4A) If you own a non-Commodore accelerator, who produces it?
4B) What CPU does it use? What FPU (if any)? At what clock
rate does it run? If it's an 020, does it have a MMU
chip?
5A) Do you own a hard disk controller?
Yes
5B) If so, who produces it?
Microbotics StarDrive SCSI interface on the Memory card.
5C) What kind of interface does it use?
a) SCSI
5D) How many hard disks do you have? How large is each one?
None yet. Need one real soon.
6) What other peripherals does your system have? Specify
the manufacturer and model. (Include video boards,
extra floppy drives, network adapters, multiserial
cards, etc.)
Just an extrernal floppy.
7) For what purpose do you use/intend to use Minix?
(choose all that apply)
***e) Network environment - merge KA9Q TCP/IP and UUCP into Minix.
<and the following>
a) Learn Unix
b) Program Unix-like system
c) Kernel hacking
d) BBS system
f) General-purpose system.
g) Other (specify)
8) What additional feature might you like to see in minix?
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Thank you for responding.
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Tyler "Ty" Sarna tsarna@polar.bowdoin.edu
"Navy. It's not just a job, it's 8.76 a week." -SNL
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