Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!visix!brett From: brett@visix.com (Brett Bourbin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga 3000UX first impressions Keywords: Amiga unix 3000UX Message-ID: Date: 14 Jan 91 23:58:49 GMT References: <5187@auspex.auspex.com> <1991Jan14.071758.27853@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Organization: Visix Software Inc., Reston, VA Lines: 35 Ok, if the machine and OS is now public, I guess I can comment for the software developers point-of-view. For a CISC processor version of UNIX which are suppose to be smaller than their RISC counterparts, AMIX seems to be alittle bloated. On a 9Meg system (8 fast, 1 chip), the UNIX when booted only leaves me with alittle over 5Megs. This is before the X Window System. I don't know if I agree not to put color into the console X server. The reason I heard was about speed and I really don't fully believe it. The OPEN LOOK window manager has some problems with window placements. I don't think they are handling the USPosition and PPosition hints. The X server has some major drawing problems if you interrupt it when it is at work using the window manager (dragging a window while it is being drawn). I don't know what they are sync'ing the mouse pointer with for X, but it is very unstable. I will venture a guess that it is not a sprite. 8^) The good points are that it seems pretty complete as SVR4 goes. Besides a major bug in the socket library (recvfrom () call) and the X problems, it is pretty stable. NFS works like a charm, along with TCP/IP (this was not the case for the earlier beta versions back 2-3 months ago with kernel panics on NFS writes). BTW - I use the gcc complier on the system, and not the standard cc for it gives my much tighter code. -- -- __ Brett Bourbin \ / /(_ /\/ 11440 Commerce Park Drive ..!uunet!visix!brett \/ / __)/ /\ Reston, Virginia 22091 brett@visix.com Software Inc (703) 758-2733