Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: A3000UX - Born to run UNIX SVR4 Message-ID: <1991Feb11.004357.24009@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 11 Feb 91 00:43:57 GMT References: <32530@auc.UUCP> <1512@pdxgate.UUCP> <1991Feb9.032953.14709@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 31 In article <1991Feb9.032953.14709@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> rjc@geech.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes: > What makes you think an 040 NeXT will be competitive with an 040 Amiga > when the inferior NeXT with inferior color and expansion capabilities > cost the same? Color is not an unambiguous win. Monochrome gives superior resolution even on nominally equivalent displays. As for expansion capabilities, what is it that you find missing in the slab that you might want to install later? > Reworded, it sounds the same. The slab is virtually useless. The $3200 > model is almost unusable. An A3000 with an 040 running AmigaDOS wil > burn rubber for speed. We're talking about the A3000 running UNIX here. Both of them have heavy overhead: I wouldn't care to say which is a bigger CPU sucker: DP or X/NeWS. > Even the A3000UX with an 040 will probably beat the > 040 NeXT because it doesn't waste so much CPU on the interface. Sure does. UNIX+X/NeWS or Mach+Display Postscript. The slab is as fast as any UNIX workstation I've ever used. > but chances are, if you buy the cheapest Slab, you'll need to shell out > another $2000-3000 down the road anyway, For what? -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .