Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!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: <8284@gollum.twg.com> Date: 15 Nov 90 02:37:32 GMT References: <6653@chorus.fr> <6944@sugar.hackercorp.com> <8222@gollum.twg.com> <6998@sugar.hackercorp.com> Reply-To: david@twg.com (David S. Herron) Organization: The Wollongong Group, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 36 In article <6998@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <8222@gollum.twg.com> david@twg.com (David S. Herron) writes: >> In article <6944@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >> >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 .. >Which is *why* it doesn't make sense to run UNIX on am Amiga... because those >386 clones are out there, do all the same things, and are *CHEAPER*. I expect >Amiga with UNIX to cost about as much as a NeXT, and the NeXT has a much better >UNIX (no, not because it's BSD. BSD sucks. It's because it's Mach). I expect that Unix running on Amiga would give me a much faster/nicer environment than a 386 clone or a NeXT (tho' comparing to NeXT is much closer in those terms). The NeXT dies in my book because I'm interested in working with X, not NeXTStep. Yes I can get X for it, but that's not a Standard Feature of the system and, most importantly, the Interface Builder doesn't generate X code. So to compare an Amiga with Unix to a '386 -- The A3000 has a much faster bus (20 MByte/sec vs. ~1-3 MByte/sec; unless I get a Tyan machine but that runs me $10,000). The Amiga also has SCSI-II coming in at somewhere around 1MB/sec - 5 MB/sec (depending on drive); what the speed of ESDI interfaces? I was depressed a bit when cbm.com guys said recently that the X server on Unix doesn't use the custom chips. Another consideration is hardware reliability. These 386 clones around here simply haven't impressed me with their Solidness and Reliability... -- <- David Herron, an MMDF & WIN/MHS guy, <- Formerly: David Herron -- NonResident E-Mail Hack <- <- Use the force Wes!