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From: jjfeiler@arrester.caltech.edu (John Jay Feiler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga UNIX
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Date: 10 Aug 90 17:20:11 GMT
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tyager@maxx.UUCP (Tom Yager) writes:

>That having been said, I have one question which I hope won't piss anyone
>off unduly: Why would you want to run UNIX on an Amiga? I'm not being
>critical, mind you, and I haven't chosen sides. I'd just like to hear from 
>some of you what you feel the Amiga has to offer a UNIX user that you can't
>get from one of the $5000 boxes from Sun or Apollo/HP. If the initial release
>allows you to mix AmigaDOS and UNIX programs on the same box and screen,
>then that's something, and my question is pointless. Failing that, what are
>some of the other reasons for running UNIX on an Amiga?
>+--Tom Yager, Technical Editor, BYTE----Reviewer, UNIX World---------------+

I want Unix on my amiga for one very important reason ... I don't have the
cash to buy an A3000 and a $5000 box from sun or apollo.  There's a lot
of PD/FR software out there that I can't be bothered to port to AmigaDOS,
but would still like to run at home.  But I won't pay $5000 for a diskless
Sun, or Apollo, because then my current software investment wouldn't be
usable on my new machine.

Having an A3000 with Unix is the best of all possible worlds as far as
I'm concerned..... (except for that laptop Cray Y-MP I've got on order :-)

	John Feiler