Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!jarthur!usc!wuarchive!udel!princeton!twg.com!david From: david@twg.com (David S. Herron) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: AmigaOS/UNIX - A Suggestion Message-ID: <8222@gollum.twg.com> Date: 5 Nov 90 23:07:06 GMT References: <6653@chorus.fr> <6944@sugar.hackercorp.com> Reply-To: david@twg.com (David S. Herron) Organization: The Wollongong Group, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 38 In article <6944@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article joseph@valnet.UUCP (Joseph P. Hillenburg) writes: >> Well, if their going to be using these machines for UNIX, it's likely >> that they will be running UNIX full time, and they could eliminate the >> AmigaDOS partition totally. > >AAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!! > >There, that's better. Is there an echo in here? > >If you're not going to run AmigaOS, why get an Amiga? Y'know.. we've got all these '386 clones scattered around the company on which the *ONLY* OS is System V .. I'm sure a die hard PC-DOS fanatic would have the same reaction. Yet, in general, people don't bat an eyelash to the idea of running Unix on a PC. (I personally find it less than satisfying since the hardware/software fit just isn't "quite right".. sigh) As for Unix on the A3000 I'll (probably) be buying Real Soon Now.. I'm kinda up in the air about it. I wanna have a Unix machine at home to work with & I can see that an Amiga would be a really really really good machine to run Unix on (given the fast bus & accelerated graphics). Better than just about anything else that I could afford. Yes, AmigaDOS multi-tasks and I should be happy with that. But having Unix on my home system is vewwy vewwy important -- and I've grown tired of the administrative hassle of having two systems at home to take care of. Soooo... -- <- David Herron, an MMDF & WIN/MHS guy, <- Formerly: David Herron -- NonResident E-Mail Hack <- <- Use the force Wes!