Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!emory!mephisto!rutgers!cbmvax!holland From: holland@cbmvax.commodore.com (Fred Holland - Ed Marketing) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: VPI Selects Commodore For Unix Platform Keywords: VPI Message-ID: <13925@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 21 Aug 90 21:13:12 GMT Reply-To: holland@cbmvax.UUCP (Fred Holland - Ed Marketing) Distribution: comp Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 86 For more information contact Noam Gelfond at Fleishman-Hillard, Inc. 202-659-0330 VIRGINIA TECH CHOOSES COMMODORE FOR UNIX PLATFORM REPLACES MAC AS REQUIRED MACHINE FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE MAJORS WEST CHESTER, Pa., August 7, 1990 -- Commodore Business Machines, Inc. launched its effort to bring UNIX into education with the delivery of its first order of UNIX-based Amiga computers to Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). The university, which for the last three years has required incoming computer science majors to buy Apple's Macintosh running A/UX, chose instead Commodore's Amiga 3000 with AT&T's UNIX System V.4 operating system after seeing the power and capabilities of the new Commodore Amiga 3000 with a UNIX implementation. Virginia Tech's purchase comes during the product's beta test phase, in preparation for this fall's worldwide Amiga 3000 UNIX launch. Following that launch, Amiga UNIX platforms will be made available to the education community at large. "This is a significant win for Commodore, because it clearly demonstrates that power and price-performance superiority of the Amiga 3000," said Howard Diamond, Commodore's Director of Education. "The marriage of the Amiga and V.4 technology is an exciting development for us and for our customers in higher education and other markets," he added. "Commodore's UNIX passed every one of our tests," said Dr. James Arthur, chairman of the computer science department's selection committee. "From the Amiga technology to V.4 delivery to the Amiga's unbeatable price performance, Amiga UNIX was the clear choice for our department. We're also very pleased with Commodore's willingness to work closely with us to produce a solution tailored to our needs." UNIX technology is significant because it establishes common standards for the exchange of information between dissimilar hardware systems, an especially critical need for computer science and other university departments. Commodore's configuration is also important because version V.4's "open system" integrates into one package all the features of the various UNIX technologies and is expected by many to become the standard to which future systems will comply. In fact, over 150 companies have declared their support for V.4. Since 1985, Virginia Tech has required its incoming computer science students to purchase a personal computer. UNIX was selected as the operating system standard because it provides an ideal environment for experimentation and because it is largely platform-independent. Over the years, technology advances have prompted constant re- evaluation of the required platform. The selection of the Commodore Amiga is a realization of that re-evaluation process. According to Dr. Arthur, Virginia Tech is the only university in the country which requires its computer science majors to purchase a particular UNIX platform. Computer science students become intimately familiar with the UNIX operating system and underlying concepts found on a wide range of computers from mainframes to micros, and will use the Amiga to perform homework, in-class projects and term papers. Commodore Business Machines, Inc., based in West Chester, Pa., manufactures and markets a complete line of computers and peripherals for the business, educations, government and consumer markets. The multitasking Amiga (R) line includes the Commodore Amiga 500 (TM), the Commodore Amiga 2000 (TM), two enhanced products: the Commodore Amiga 2000HD (TM) and the Commodore Amiga 2500/30 (TM) and the Amiga 3000 (TM). -- ========================================================================== Commodore International Ltd. PHONE 215-431-9100 UUCP ...{uunet,allegra,rutgers}!cbmvax!holland EDUCATION DEPT. 1200 WILSON DRIVE, WEST CHESTER, PA 19380 CUSTOMER RELATIONS DEPT. (215) 436-4200 CBM FAX (215) 431-9156 ==========================================================================