jle@csgrad.cs.vt.edu (06/08/91)
Things have finally settled down long enough for me to post to the usenet concerning our environment and usage of the Amiga 3000 UX. We have had a pc requirement for the past several years for our undergraduate students. Last year was our first year using the Amiga 3000 UX. So by the time this fall comes, we will have our freshman and sophomore CS majors using the 3000 UX. In addition we have about 25 units in our department spread over our undergraduate lab, graduate lab, and on our faculty desks. Systems in the graduate lab and faculty offices are connected via ethernet. We are currently working with commodore to set up a graduate server and undergraduate server. We want to test out the system under a more stressful environment. In the past the graduate server was a Mac II with 8Mb RAM and 900Mb of disk. We are working on larger configuration for the 3000 UX. Our network consist of SUN, DEC, Apple, NeXT, Sequent, IBM and Intel. A pascal compiler for Amiga UNIX was developed here at VPI, and we currently are working on prolog and lisp ports to the Amiga. Our support operation for the students include sofware updates, cloning, UNIX support as well as hardware consulting. I will rest my fingers now. I will be glad to answer questions on our operation and feelings of the 3000. I will probably have questions to post to the net as well in the near future. -Jamie Evans- CS Dept VPI 703-231-6102 jle@vtopus.cs.vt.edu jle@csgrad.cs.vt.edu
tbissett@nstar.rn.com (Travis Bissett) (06/08/91)
jle@csgrad.cs.vt.edu writes: > > > Our support operation for the students include sofware updates, > cloning, UNIX support as well as hardware consulting. > > I will rest my fingers now. I will be glad to answer questions > on our operation and feelings of the 3000. I will probably have > questions to post to the net as well in the near future. > [tentative hand raising] Uh, I got a question. I know your bailiwick is comp sci and support, but maybe you no some facts tangential to this. What kinds of APPLICATIONS are actually runable on the A3000UX? I am specifically interested in engineering and CAD applications. OK, I know about Maple. Any others? The Autodesk guys at the NAtional Desing Show acted as though they'd never even heard of System V release 4 ^^^DESIGN^^^ (darned typos!) From the way they talked AutoCAD would only be supported on MS-DOS and SPARC platforms. I'm not a big AutoCAD fan but I'd like to see SOME market interest in Amix. How 'bout Cognition, Inc.? They do good stuff that would suit the A3000UX very well. Any clues? Thanks... Travis -- tbissett@nstar.rn.com -- Travis Bissett NSTAR conferencing site 219-289-0287/317-251-7391 internet: tbissett@nstar.rn.com 1300 newsgroups - 8 inbound lines uucp: ..!uunet!nstar.rn.com!tbissett 99 file areas - 4300 megabytes --- backbone news & mail feeds available - contact larry@nstar.rn.com ---
griffin@frith.egr.msu.edu (Danny Griffin) (06/10/91)
tbissett@nstar.rn.com (Travis Bissett) writes: >jle@csgrad.cs.vt.edu writes: >> I will be glad to answer questions >[tentative hand raising] Uh, I got a question. I know your bailiwick is comp >sci and support, but maybe you no some facts tangential to this. What kinds >of APPLICATIONS are actually runable on the A3000UX? I am specifically >interested in engineering and CAD applications. OK, I know about Maple. Any Me too! I am specifically interested in design type programs - specifically CAD right now. -- Dan Griffin griffin@frith.egr.msu.edu
julius@cbmtor.uucp (Julius Oklamcak) (06/22/91)
In article <JR9831w161w@nstar.rn.com> tbissett@nstar.rn.com (Travis Bissett) writes: > [...] >of APPLICATIONS are actually runable on the A3000UX? I am specifically >interested in engineering and CAD applications. OK, I know about Maple. Any > [...] >Travis -- tbissett@nstar.rn.com > Would DynaCADD 3.0 under X11 running on SVr4 make you happy? :-) -- Julius Oklamcak, Software Development, Ditek International
tbissett@nstar.rn.com (Travis Bissett) (06/23/91)
julius@cbmtor.uucp (Julius Oklamcak) writes: > In article <JR9831w161w@nstar.rn.com> tbissett@nstar.rn.com (Travis Bissett) > > [...] > >of APPLICATIONS are actually runable on the A3000UX? I am specifically > >interested in engineering and CAD applications. OK, I know about Maple. Any > > [...] > >Travis -- tbissett@nstar.rn.com > > > > Would DynaCADD 3.0 under X11 running on SVr4 make you happy? :-) Hey! Sure it would (and does) make me happy. It's a great start. Uh, I confess to being somewhat ignorant of DynaCAD. Is it a good 'un? How about some SDRC products? Or fluid dynamics? Or Parametrics Pro/Engineer(R)? Thanks for the feedback! It whets my appetite to hear about more :-) Travis -- tbissett@nstar.rn.com -- Travis Bissett NSTAR conferencing site 219-289-0287/317-251-7391 internet: tbissett@nstar.rn.com 1300 newsgroups - 8 inbound lines uucp: ..!uunet!nstar.rn.com!tbissett 99 file areas - 4300 megabytes --- backbone news & mail feeds available - contact larry@nstar.rn.com ---