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From: hal@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Aaron Harsh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Amiga 3000UX questions
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Date: 9 Dec 90 19:44:32 GMT
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  I've been reading this newsgroup lately and all this talk about the 3000UX
has me interested.  I have some basic questions about it:

  1) What kind of resolution does it have in its different display modes.  As
    I recall, the other Amiga's could only do 12 bit color in 320X200 Mode,
    and monochrome 1280*400.  These seem a little low for a workstation, so
    maybe Commodore added some new modes?

  2) How well does it run X?  It has the processor power to make it zip along,
    but is it all tied up in the OS?

  3) How fast is their UNIX?  More specifically, does it bog down the machine
    to the point where it can't do any multimedia?

  4) I know ethernet ports don't come standard.  How much extra are they?  Are
    thick and thin on the same card?

  Could someone also post some general specs about it?

Aaron Harsh
hal@eecs.cs.pdx.edu