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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga UNIX
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Date: 10 Aug 90 20:12:29 GMT
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>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---------------+

	The $5,000 SparcStation SLC is a very nice machine.
However, it has no harddrive. Now that's no problem if you are
hooked up to a network with a big drive, but as a standalone
machine you have to buy an external SCSI drive. The SLC is
black&white, the new color sun being $10,000. There is a
disadvantage.
	Although you can't get both Amiga and Unix
simultaneously, you can boot either way. Commodore has also
hinted at the possibility of such a combo in the future.
	-- Ethan

Ethan Solomita: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu

"If Commodore had to market sushi they'd call it `raw cold fish'"
		-- The Bandito, inevitably stolen from someone else