Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uupsi!sunic!news.funet.fi!funic!polaris.utu.fi!polaris!jita From: jita@polaris.utu.fi (Marko Katajisto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: AmigaOS/UNIX - A Suggestion Message-ID: Date: 9 Dec 90 20:57:38 GMT References: <16094@cbmvax.commodore.com> <7185@sugar.hackercorp.com> <16325@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1990Dec6.191222.12243@ericsson.se> <598@amix.commodore.com> Sender: jita@polaris.utu.fi (Marko Katajisto) Organization: University of Turku Lines: 36 In-Reply-To: ford@amix.commodore.com's message of 8 Dec 90 08:29:46 GMT In article <598@amix.commodore.com> ford@amix.commodore.com (Mike "Ford" Ditto) writes: >Yes, I do it all the time. Our "standard" Beta release includes an >A2620/A2630 boot floppy, an A3000 boot floppy, an install floppy, and >a tape. I beleive that for the initial A3000UX machines, they have >left out the A2620 floppy (why not?). By the time we release, we hope >to have merged the boot procedures so that the A2000/A3000 boot >floppies will be replaced by one universal boot floppy. That way, >regardless of what marketing decides, you A2620 owners can get Unix >because it'll be the same as for the A3000. :-) Nice, very nice indeed! Maybe I'll forget that DECStation 2100 and buy UNIX for my current A2000/A2620/A2320 (A2410 maybe?) configuration instead... :) Still, a couple of questions: In what format will that tape come, standard UNIX tape format I guess, but what's the size of the tape? 60 or 150 megs? And should I sell my current SCSI-adapter (Microbotics HardFrame) and get an A2091 or can I get drivers for other host adapters too (any bundled with current beta-relase?)? PS. Any ideas how to break this annoying 4 meg barrier on this board, maybe Dave Haynie could hack out a replacement of these 1 mb chips to 4 mb chips? X Windows with Open Look in 4 MB machine is swapper's nightmare I suppose? :) > -=] Ford [=- > >"The number of Unix installations (In Real Life: Mike Ditto) >has grown to 10, with more expected." ditto@amix.commodore.com >- The Unix Programmer's Manual, uunet!cbmvax!ditto > 2nd Edition, June, 1972. ford@kenobi.commodore.com ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Hehhee.... :) -- Jita - Marko Katajisto University of Turku Department of Computer Science jita@utu.fi jita@nic.funet.fi jita@firien.bitnet Tel: +358 21 325910