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From: schweige@cs.nps.navy.mil (Jeffrey M. Schweiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Info on new low-end Mac
Message-ID: <1119@cs.nps.navy.mil>
Date: 23 Jul 90 00:52:43 GMT
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In article <1990Jul23.000142.26294@utstat.uucp> philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough) writes:
|In article <13353@cbmvax.commodore.com> martin@cbmvax (Martin Hunt) writes:
|>In article <1990Jul22.011427.1065@utstat.uucp> philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough) writes:
|>>    
|>>Appletalk is a very nice networking system. Note that the protocals
|>>can run at Ethernet speed(EtherTalk). But for a simple, and easy to
|>>use network, the Mac's Appletalk interface is great. It comes in
|>>quite handy on a Unix network.
               ^^
|>
|>Except that UNIX networks don't speak Appletalk.
| 
|Well tell that to the residence dorms that are equipped with Appletalk
|outlets. There are many good gateways between Unix and an Appletalk based
|network. One advantage is that this brings the Mac interface, way of
|printing,mail,etc...to Unix. We have such a setup at our university and
|to use it is a joy.

To me, at least, being on a Unix network and being gatewayed onto/interfaced
with a Unix network are different issues.  This might have been the cause of
some confusion.  Network connections/solutions for the Amiga are hardly
lacking including Ethernet, Arcnet, Amiga Client for Novell Netware, TCP/IP,
NFS, XWindows, TSSNet (DECNet), etc.  Although I can't find it at the moment,
I thought I had heard of an Amiga-Appletalk link also.


|As for the price issue, you must realize that the Amiga must establish
|itself. It is trying to break into a very competitive market. The analogy
|to use is not the PC one, but Sun. Sun is virtually giving away its
|hardware in order to establish a leading marketshare for its OS. They
|have now largely succeeded(I can get a 12.5 mips Sparcstation-I for less
|than an A3000) and people are writing all kinds of software for it. 

A 12.5 mips (MIPS - sometimes referred to as 'meaningless indicator of processor
speed' :-)  ) Sparcstation 1 for less than $3039 (US) (price of A3000/25-40
package on the US educational purchase program), this sounds interesting...
I know that the lower end Sparcstations (and Sparcstation clones) are getting
less expensive, but I hadn't heard it was that cheap.

Jeff Schweiger

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