ptavoly@cs.ruu.nl (Peter Tavoly) (04/23/91)
Hi, cs.ruu.nl received two A3000 UX's last friday :). Tech notes: hardy.cs.ruu.nl : 200MB/9MB/C= monochrome (I don't know the number, but it's the one with a green led in the C= logo: Hedley/2024?) laurel.cs.ruu.nl : 100MB/5MB/C= 1950. Hardy is configured for UNIX only, laurel for AmigaDOS only (I don't know why this was done, I thought that the big advantage was lying in the dual possibilities.). They will probably stay for a month, followed by evaluation, endless staff meetings, coffee, exchange of Interceptor tricks and replacement of the Cyber mainframe by a couple of A3000's :) Test messages at thomas@hardy.cs.ruu.nl are welcome. Questions: 1. The disks that came with them did not contain the info- and the icon.library, is there a slight chance that these have moved to ROM, and if so, why do I get a requester wanting icon.library v36 or higher (and a recoverable alert on cancel) on LoadWB? If not, could you be the one who sends them to me? Please use ptavoly@praxis.cs.ruu.nl for this. (I know about copyrights, but by the time C= official personnel sends us an update disk, the testing period will have expired by 3.14 months...) 2. I heard something about a workbench.library, w2. I heard something about a workbench.library, what is this? 3. There is a reference at ENVARC: in the startup-sequence, what is this? It is not a directory, a path, an assign or a disk wanted by workbench. Is it magic? Furthermore, who do you think I am to RTFM :) ? I have not looked into that, I like to use my Intuition :) 4. Do zou know where I can get LHArc and Zoo for UNIX? I can't seem to find them on the harddisk.. First impressions (IMHO :): I arrived half an hour too late, by that time the systems were up and running.. :) The AmigaDOS comfiguration (laurel) seems a step back after ARP, but my view is not yet complete, as I am a shell freak, and have not had the opportunity to use the GUI because of the missing icon.library. The UNIX configuration is fast without X (small wonder with that huge font, resembles CGA (Yuck!) ), and with X running slower than the workstations I used to work with (HP 9000/340 diskless (68030/25Mhz). -TT. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ____ Thomas Tavoly, Commercial Computer Science - HEAO Utrecht, NL. / / / "Whoever talks too much, has no time to think." - Peter Tavoly. AMIGA / Favourite quote: "The Mac OS is amazingly complex, ____ / / / .sig v3.0e given how little it does." - Peter da Silva \ \ \/ / / ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~>> ptavoly@praxis.cs.ruu.nl <<~~~~~~~~~ \_\_\/_/