Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!sunc.osc.edu!malgudi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!msuinfo!convex.cl.msu.edu!jap From: jap@convex.cl.msu.edu (Joe Porkka) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: UNIX sys V4.0 Message-ID: <1990Oct25.004837.22651@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Date: 25 Oct 90 00:48:37 GMT References: <15271@cbmvax.commodore.com> <35211@cup.portal.com> Sender: news@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu Distribution: na Organization: Michigan State University Lines: 38 Speaking of which - I just saw AmigaUNIX running today at MicrosUnlimited - an Michigan State Computer show. It looks okay - it supports multiple login via ALT-Fkey to flip screens (8 I think). Xwindows was there too - it seemed to run VERY slow and was quite flakey - I crashed to twice just moving things around on the screen (no prob, flip to another screen and kill -9 it!). the machine was marked Amiga3000UX -> special edition of the caseing i guess. it had 300megs of harddisk, and an unkown amount of memory. All the root passwds were x'ed out - nuts. The sales droids there knew zero about the machine (they had hand written instuctions telling them how to login :-) ). They also were showing another 3000 with a CD player and AmigaVision controlling the show. Pretty slick computer animation+video and stereo sounds. I was impressed, but for the 30mins i was around, not many people were interested. There was a crowd around the new NeXT machines though. -- joe P.S. to CBM sales droid support: The sales guy said he has a tough time getting enough paraphernalia and posters from CBM. He must PAY for what he gets. Seems to me CBM should give him a truck load of the stuff - he could deposit them all around campus then. (The sales guy used to be the rep from Zenith, and they treated him the same way.)