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From: yarnall@usceast.UUCP (Ken Yarnall)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Blues
Summary: So you want an SGI
Message-ID: <3391@usceast.UUCP>
Date: 10 Aug 90 06:33:32 GMT
References: <20260001@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> <1037@flash.UUCP> <13697@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1045@flash.UUCP> <13725@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Organization: Math Department, University of South Carolina (ahem; The USC)
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In article <13725@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax (Dave Haynie) writes:
+In article <1045@flash.UUCP> klg@flash.UUCP (Kevin L. Gross) writes:
+
+>All I want is the graphics and sound of the Amiga combined with the
+>speed, power and functionality of UNIX along with the expandibility of
+>a mainframe on my desk at home. But I can't afford a Silicon Graphics
+>machine.
+

Sorry, I just had to add a few cents here.  I spent a good bit of the summer
working on a program, and some of the development was on a SGI machine (a
Personal Iris).  I cannot really vouch for the fact that any right-thinking
American would wish this machine on him(her)self.  Don't get me wrong; the
hardware is very nice.  The display is stunning, the cpu can really churn,
etc.  However, the windowing system is so slow as to be unuseable, even on a
machine proported to have one of the fastest graphics systems around, and the
implementation on UNIX is among the buggiest I have encountered.  At one time
our program was dumping core *inside the malloc() routine*.  If malloc dumps
core (apparently because of a bit of memory fragmentation; rebooting the
computer would temporarily clear things up), god only knows what fun lies in
wait in the rest of the system.  Sun machines may be less trendy, but they
sure are stable.  Hell, the Beta AmigaOS 2.0's I've seen were more stable.
By an Amiga 3000 and get happy, friend.

+
+>-Kevin L. Gross          Systems Mgr.           klg@Summation.WA.COM
+
+-- 
+Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests"

-kenny
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