Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!nstn.ns.ca!news.cs.indiana.edu!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: A3000UX at UniForum? Message-ID: <1991Feb9.053102.2263@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 9 Feb 91 05:31:02 GMT References: <1991Feb6.005537.7551@Neon.Stanford.EDU> <7498@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> <1991Feb8.133703.4810@cc.helsinki.fi> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 18 Look, all this price twiddling is very interesting but it doesn't answer the question: how does Commodore plan on selling the A3000UX against competition from the NeXT... a machine that lists less, sells for less, has more features, and actually has a bunch of applications that run under UNIX? If you want to run AmigaOS (like me) a 3000/16 or even a 500 is a hell of a lot better value. Just what does Amiga UNIX provide that other commodity UNIXes don't? What is its mission? I hope it has one. I'm not trying to talk anyone out of getting an A3000UX. In fact I'm trying to talk my boss into getting it or a NeXT... anything but a 386 box. I've far too much experience with the agony of getting a good 386 UNIX box together. So what is the mission of the A3000UX? Why is it better than the less expensive NeXT? Color isn't it, that's for sure. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .