Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!isis!bscott From: bscott@isis.cs.du.edu (Ben Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: A3000UX info in newest BYTE Summary: GSA pricing on the 3000UX Keywords: 3000UX GSA government Unix Message-ID: <1990Dec1.124349.19946@isis.cs.du.edu> Date: 1 Dec 90 12:43:49 GMT References: <1990Nov26.161956.7275@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Reply-To: bscott@isis.UUCP (Ben Scott) Organization: The Raster Image Lines: 52 In article <1990Nov26.161956.7275@watdragon.waterloo.edu> scfsiu@watsol.waterloo.edu (Steven C. F. Siu) writes: >a one-page article on the A3000UX. (According to the article it is essentially >an A3000/25-100 with 8 meg RAM (I wonder how that is divided into chip/fast >RAM) and SVR4. There is a choice of the 'standard Amiga color monitor' (I >assume it is the multisync) or the high-resolution monochrome monitor. From what I have heard (reported below) it's a 200 meg HD. The "8 meg" is probably fast RAM with 1 meg chip, I would think. >The most exciting bit of information is the price: 'approximately $4000'. >According to the posted list of educational price (effective Sept. 1) in this >newsgroup, the A3000/25-100 system (w/5 meg ram, multisync, AmigaVision) has >a list price of $5798 and an educational discount price of $3899. Now how >can you add 3 meg RAM and SVR4 (and subtract AmigaVision??) to get $4000??? Well, this is likely to be the price without monitor. I am working at a government office at the moment and they have a $12,000 souped-up 2000 system I've been helping them with (they've received approval on a 3000 or 3000UX too!), and while talking to one of the people in that department, he told me that a Commodore rep said the 3000UX will be available in January on the GSA catalog at about $4000. Since there will be several routes to go re: the monitor, it'll probably be separate. >that the A3000UX will be debuted in an EDUCOM(sp) event (which Ethan told me >is around next February). There seems to be something wrong in the timing >between BYTE and Commodore. The 3000UX would probably have been released by now if AT&T would pronounce SVR4 ready (not the Amiga version specifically, just ANY SVR4). So it's not entirely up to Commodore. It could well be released earlier, and just shown at Educom as the first trade show after the release. It's already been shown elsewhere. >$3899 price. That means Commodore is not going to milk us on SVR4. >(I read that the several third-party UNIX on the IBM-PC costs on the order of >$1000, and I have this mortal fear that SVR4 is going to be similarly I'm told A/UX on the Apple (a port of an obsolete Unix) is closer to $2500. >Maybe that is Commodore's answer to NeXT. I prefer to think of NeXT as Jobs' answer to the Amiga... . <<<>>> (BTW, we have a news blockage here so if you have anything important to say to me, send mail to make sure I get it) -- |Ben Scott, professional goof-off and consultant at The Raster Image, Denver| |FIDO point address 1:104/421.2, bscott@isis.cs.du.edu, or BBS (303)424-9831| |"Spent 4 hours burying the cat!" "Four || The Raster Image IS responsible | | hours?!?" "It wouldn't keep still..." || for everything I say! | *Amiga* |