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From: dale@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dale Luck - Amiga)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A3000
Message-ID: <11390@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 6 May 90 16:07:51 GMT
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Reply-To: dale@cbmvax (Dale Luck - Amiga)
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In article <158@next.com> Ali_Ozer@NeXT.com (Ali Ozer) writes:
>In article <3625@newton.physics.purdue.edu> William J. Murphy writes:
>>Ali, Does this imply that NeXT blundered when selling their diskless NeXT?
>
>No, doesn't imply that at all.  I was talking from my experiences with
>Amigas; once you've got 2M or more in there, the added value of a hard disk 
>is lot more than the added value of getting an extra 4M. IMHO.
>
>Of course,  a "diskless" NeXT actually does have a 40M drive in there...
>
>Ali


From what I remember. The 40m disk on the Next is there for swappingl.
This is a thing that all unix machines do to manage more tasks than they
have available memory.

No my Amiga under Amigados does not seem to need this swapping stuff.
So a local harddisk as opposed to an ethernet interface is not so
clearly beneficial if I have a choice and I have an NFS server available
to loan me some space. In a network of abunch of Amiga's, they could share
the same 'read only' standard wb drawers like system/utilities/c: etc.
The added advantage of ethernet for interoperability is quite an extra
benefit. File sharing between Amigas is pretty easy with nfs and and nfs
server. You can share the printer on the unix box to if you have
basic rsh capability on the Amiga. Which the current ethernet software
does have.
This message is not actually a response to this particular post. It is
really just another viewpont on the 'builtin' harddisk discussion.
I think the builtin scsi is great. But lowball machine should not have a
harddisk. I know of some places (Lawrence Livermore Labs) to be specific
that forbid harddisks from being attached to their Amigas. I think it was
a security issue. The data they were playing with was not supposed to be
taken off the file servers and stored on another medium. It could be
accessed over a network (which is what they are doing) but it was not
allowed to copy to local floppies or hard disk.
Dale