Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!rutgers!cbmvax!amix!ford From: ford@amix.commodore.com (Mike "Ford" Ditto) Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga 3000UX first impressions Summary: Please include Amiga Unix version name in postings Keywords: Amiga Unix 3000UX Message-ID: <795@amix.commodore.com> Date: 16 Jan 91 00:05:04 GMT References: <5187@auspex.auspex.com> <1991Jan14.071758.27853@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Reply-To: ford@amix.commodore.com (Mike "Ford" Ditto) Organization: Commodore-Amiga Unix Development Lines: 54 In article brett@visix.com (Brett Bourbin) writes: >Ok, if the machine and OS is now public, I guess I can comment for the >software developers point-of-view. Reminder: Everyone who currently has Unix on their Amiga has a pre-release beta test version. Some of these people are beta testers who received the software and/or hardware by special arrangement, others are the lucky few who have managed to buy an A3000UX through a special educational program (and some mysterious early dealer units). I don't know what, if any, non-disclosure agreements any of these people are bound to, so I have no complaints about posting "first impressions," etc. However, I would like to make one request: Please include the Amiga Unix version name/number, as in "Beta3j", when you comment about the software. The output of "uname -rv" will do nicely. The main reason for this at the moment is to remind readers that it is BETA software that is being reviewed. Also, when someone says, > AMIX seems to be alittle bloated. I would like to respond with an estimate of how much smaller the system got between the version he has and the current one. But I can't, not knowing what version was being described. >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 main reason is this: We got a single-bitplane version (much easier to do than multi-bitplane) running on the native hardware as soon as possible. Since then, the X people have been concentrating on the TIGA X server for the hires graphics card. We always have and still do intend to extend the native server to multi-bitplane. > [ other X problems ] I'll let the Xperts investigate those. >a major bug in the socket library (recvfrom () call) I haven't seen this in our bug list, please send a report to bugs@amix.commodore.com. Thanks for all your comments. -=] Ford [=- "The number of Unix installations (In Real Life: Mike Ditto) has grown to 10, with more expected." ford@amix.commodore.com - The Unix Programmer's Manual, uunet!cbmvax!ditto 2nd Edition, June, 1972. ford@kenobi.commodore.com