gallo@cs.albany.edu (Andrew Gallo) (04/12/91)
I'm thinking of buying an Ami 3000UX (I want Unix and I have little to spend for it). I'm also thinking of buying a low-end Ami for my 13 year-old sister (maybe a 500 or 2000). I want to have the maximum amount of transportability between the two machines. I understand the discussion about the UX not reading AmiDOS disks (why should Unix understand the AmiDOS filesystem anyway...) However, does the UX come with AmiDOS as well? I'd really be able to decide at boot time wheather to use Unix or DOS, and thereby be able to share disks with my sister's machine running DOS. I guess the question boils down to this - is there something so drastically different about the UX that it is not backward compatible with the earlier models (at a hardware level, obviously not at an OS level). Also, does anyone have experience connecting a UX to an MS-DOS PC? I already have an antiquated XT clone with tons of software. I thought it might be nice to network it to the UX. What is the best and most economical method? Ethernet thinwire? Null modem? Any info on these topics is appreciated. >-----------------------------------------------------------------------------< > Andy Gallo | State University of | "If six, turned out to be < > gallo@cs.albany.edu | New York at Albany | nine, I don't mind..." 8-) < >-----------------------------------------------------------------------------<
heal@mrcnext.uiuc.edu (Loren E. Heal) (04/12/91)
gallo@cs.albany.edu (Andrew Gallo) writes: >... >little to spend for it). I'm also thinking of buying a low-end Ami for >... >does the UX come with AmiDOS as well? >... The 3000UX runs either AT&T SVR4 Unix or AmigaDos (1.3 or 2.0). You decide at boot time which 'un you want. I understand (from sources close to my CBM marketing rep :-) than CBM is working on a keyboad toggle to switch between the two on the fly. > Also, does anyone have experience connecting a UX to an MS-DOS PC? >I already have an antiquated XT clone with tons of software. I thought it >might be nice to network it to the UX. What is the best and most economical >method? Ethernet thinwire? Null modem? It's complicated but not impenetrable to connect a PC (either MSDOS or Amiga or any other machine with a "standard" RS-232 port) to a 3000UX. The process was new to me; my other machines run BSD, not this work-alike (big grin, flames >/dev/null, etc.). It's documented in the man pages; look under sacadm and pmadm, as well as /etc/ttydefs, ttymon. My machine is getting a ROM upgrade right now, or I'd be more specific. -- Loren E. Heal : heal@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu, (UUCP)!uiucuxc!m.c.u.e!heal
aru@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Sri-Man) (04/13/91)
In article <heal.671422731@mrcnext> heal@mrcnext.uiuc.edu (Loren E. Heal) writes: >gallo@cs.albany.edu (Andrew Gallo) writes: >>... >>I already have an antiquated XT clone with tons of software. I thought it >>might be nice to network it to the UX. What is the best and most economical >>method? Ethernet thinwire? Null modem? I believe I heard about a MS-DOS emulator for UNIX. I remember seeing one for Suns working at Chemical Engineering. You probably can emulate it faster than anything else, I suspect. Sri