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From: mike_myke_schwartz@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A3000UX competition
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Date: 28 Dec 90 00:18:14 GMT
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I have not followed the entire thread of this debate, because it consists
of 112 articles...  so please forgive me if I am rehashing old stuff.  I did
read the first article about the Amiga as a Unix Workstation, and thought I
might add a few points:

1.	Byte magazine reviewed the Amiga as a Unix workstation and gave it
	high marks, noting a significant performance benefit over anything
	within like 5x the price of the AU3000 ($4000), including and
	specifically the NeXt machines.

2.	It is unfortunate that a Unix machine demands 12Meg of RAM and
	a gigabyte of hard disk to be usable as a workstation.  And Unix
	may not even have applications that are more worth using than
	cheaper machines.  Perhaps people should spend time optimizing
	Unix so that it would allow more of that 12Meg to be used for
	applications instead of for OS overhead.

3.	Why not use the Amiga instead of a workstation for "workstation
	things"?  Is it true that companies like Sun and Silicon Graphics
	are looking at the Amiga operating system with a little amazement,
	because it is the ONLY REALTIME multitasking operating system of any
	major workstation?

4.	It is of more interest to me that the good things from Unix are
	ported to run under the Amiga environment than to have a Unix
	machine with "forward" Amiga compatibility.

5.	Where is the video toaster for the Sun?

6.	Using AmigaNet hardware/software, the Amiga is a powerful networking
	solution that rivals Unix networks.


	I must qualify this by saying that with this software, you get
	ethernet, plus every workstation can share ANY device (including