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From: sck@arnor.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: A3000UX at UniForum?
Message-ID: <1991Feb1.235941.6139@arnor.uucp>
Date: 1 Feb 91 23:59:41 GMT
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Reply-To: sck@shed.watson.ibm.com (SC Kennedy)
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I was at UseNIX and also went ot UniForum, and from what I was told. "The
A3000/UX was released on Tuesday, January 22nd, 1991." There are two 
versions one has 5 MB of RAm and a 100 MB Drive (I don't recommend buying
this one because 1: the RAM they are using is probably {according to my 
dealer} the same that is in the A3000 edu. package what means they are
using four 256 KB ZIPPS instead of one 1 MB ZIPP. This means you have to 
sell/throw out the memory when you upgrade your memory :*( The other version
has 8 MB of memory with a 200 MB drive. (This should be the entry system, 
IMHO because 80 MB is the current Size of Amiga's SysVR4 add to that a decent
Swap space (16-32 MB), a healthy /usr/local, a robust /u, and a bountiful
/tmp and you have used almost 200 MB. 

So I hope this dispells your thoughts of rumoring... I just can't wait until
they release versions for 2500/30s Which acording to one of the sales-drones
there should be in mid-late March. BTW Your local Amiga Dealer should have 
received his pricing info from the latest sales meeting. (Depending on where
you are this may not have happened yet, so be patient and support your local
dealer, or someday there may not be any. :(
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Scott C. Kennedy (sck@shed.watson.ibm.com) | "You may say I'm dreamer...
Distributed High Performance Computing     |  but I'm not the only one." 
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