Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!agate!shelby!rutgers!cbmvax!daveh From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Some A3000UX Questions. Message-ID: <14911@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 5 Oct 90 16:59:20 GMT References: <32336@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 32 In article <32336@nigel.ee.udel.edu> WHE46@ccvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) writes: > First, of all, how has Commodore solved the problem of the need for >their UNIX system to be compatible with the IBM 1.44MB floppy disk >format? This format has become a standard for UNIX workstation systems, >and Dave H. himself has mentioned the need for any Commodore UNIX >systems to be able to read and write this format. I did also mention that there are three standard UNIX interchange formats. The A3000UX 150Meg streamer tape format is the standard format. So the system does support standard UNIX interchange, even if not on the floppy. Of course, as I described here earlier, there are several ways one could go about adding a 1.44 Meg drive to any Amiga without redesigning Paula. I have my favorite method, though I really don't know if Commodore has blessed any particular way for use in an A3000UX. > Actually, I was hoping that AmigaOS2.0 would include support for >three-button mice, and that Commodore would start including three- >button mice with all Amiga systems, including the UNIX systems, but >I guess this was not to be. AmigaOS 2.0 does support 3 button mice. It certainly can't _require_ a 3 button mouse, or it would hose everyone with an older system, even if the A3000 had shipped with a 3 button mouse. > -MB- -- Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: hazy BIX: hazy Standing on the shoulders of giants leaves me cold -REM