Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!lobster!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: A3000UX at UniForum? Message-ID: <1991Feb13.011222.21368@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 13 Feb 91 01:12:22 GMT References: <1991Feb9.164339.12035@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <1991Feb11.005426.24174@sugar.hackercorp.com> <12013@helios.TAMU.EDU> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 24 In article <12013@helios.TAMU.EDU> n177ac@tamuts.tamu.edu (Daryl Biberdorf) writes: > I also think that many people will still be using UNIX machines in > 'traditional' ways, i.e. in TEXT mode. In that case the competition isn't the NeXT, it's the 386-based PC clones, and they're a *whole* lot cheaper than the NeXT... in the same price range as an Amiga 2000 with no accelerator. > - System V UNIX. You have old System V code and want to run it on the new > machine. 386 AT clones. > - you want a 680x0 box, because you think SPARC is a really icky > RISC implementation (which I've heard it is). I don't care what the CPU is if it's running UNIX... just look at the system speed. I don't think *anyone* cares about the CPU unless it's a 386 so they can run an efficient Messy-DOS emulator, or if a 68000 so you can run Mac apps under A/UX. Now if you could run AmigaOS apps under Amiga UNIX, that'd make a difference. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .