snork@iastate.edu (Schuler Rodney Arnold) (06/06/91)
I will soon be buying an ethernet board for my A3000. I need to know the best prices and places to purchase the board, and the NFS & TCP/IP software. Other questions Is there public domain TCP/IP and NFS software? Has anybody run X windows on an A3000 under AmigaDOS, and how usable is it? Rodney Schuler Graduate Student Nuclear Engineering Iowa State University snork@iastate.edu ^^^^^ *NOT* my choice --
kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk) (06/08/91)
In article <snork.676152702@du248-04.cc.iastate.edu> snork@iastate.edu (Schuler Rodney Arnold) writes: >I will soon be buying an ethernet board for my A3000. >I need to know the best prices and places to purchase the board, and the >NFS & TCP/IP software. I would suggest you check out edu pricing at GfxBase and C= for this stuff. >Other questions >Has anybody run X windows on an A3000 under AmigaDOS, and how usable is it? I am running X11 on the C= ethernet card on an A2500/20 and it is quite usable. Though I do wish I had a bigger viewable screen, this 1088 X 912 overscanned, scrolling screen is certainly usable. I would say that X11 display rates on this 2500/20 in monochrome mode is a little faster than a Sun 3/80 with color. As far as commercial X11 stuff, I can run Mathematica, DevGuide, and FrameMaker. Haven't tried any other commercial packages. I know this sounds a little silly, but though I do have a Sun 470 with a 19" monitor that I have almost exclusive access to, I find myself doing most of my work on the Amiga. I LOVE that big screen, Display Postscript, etc on the Sun, but I keep needing to do little odds and ends that are much easier to do on the Amiga, so end up here most of the time. I just use xterms, rlogin windows under AmigaDos, & NFS to use those nice Sun resources. One other thing that is really nice about X11 under AmigaDos is that you still have all those AmigaDos screens that you can work with in addition to the X11 screen. This sounds trivial, but I really miss having that flexibility when locked into that big 19" X display :^). >Rodney Schuler >Graduate Student >Nuclear Engineering >Iowa State University >snork@iastate.edu >^^^^^ *NOT* my choice >-- Kent Polk: Southwest Research Institute (512) 522-2882 Internet : kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu UUCP : $ {cs.utexas.edu, gatech!petro, sun!texsun}!swrinde!kent