Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!cbmvax!amix!ford From: ford@amix.commodore.com (Mike "Ford" Ditto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: AmigaOS/UNIX - A Suggestion Message-ID: <601@amix.commodore.com> Date: 10 Dec 90 04:02:52 GMT References: <16094@cbmvax.commodore.com> <7185@sugar.hackercorp.com> <16325@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1990Dec6.191222.12243@ericsson.se> <598@amix.commodore.com> Reply-To: ford@amix.commodore.com (Mike "Ford" Ditto) Organization: Commodore-Amiga Unix Development Lines: 28 In article jita@polaris.utu.fi (Marko Katajisto) writes: >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? QIC-150 format (150 Meg). >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?)? It will be possible to add a device driver to the Unix kernel for a SCSI adapter of your choice, but only after you have Unix installed and running on your system. Catch 22. We are thinking about this problem, but for now, an A2090 or A2091 is required (A2091 recommended). >X Windows with Open Look in 4 MB machine is swapper's nightmare I suppose? :) Yes. But it does work. :-) X, being the memory hog that it is, is the only application I'm aware of for which it actually helps to add some 16 bit memory cards to an A2000. -=] Ford [=- "A just machine to make big decisions (In Real Life: Mike Ditto) programmed by fellows with compassion ditto@amix.commodore.com and vision." - Donald Fagen, "IGY" uunet!cbmvax!ditto ford@kenobi.commodore.com