Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!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 - Born to run UNIX SVR4 Message-ID: <1991Feb13.015605.22666@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 13 Feb 91 01:56:05 GMT References: <1991Feb9.032953.14709@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1991Feb11.004357.24009@sugar.hackercorp.com> <44097@ut-emx.uucp> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 47 In article <44097@ut-emx.uucp> greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) writes: > 1) More serial ports. For a workstation? > 2) More than one DSP or just a faster DSP. I discount the utility of the DSP completely. It's just not something I see as a real selling point. It's a mark to put on the chart for otherwise equivalent boxes, but it's just not that useful. Third-party DSPs are going to be even less useful. > 3) Thick ethernet (What do thin -> thick transducers go for nowadays? $1K?) The base Amiga doesn't come with *any* ether. > If I was putting together a lab full of Unix boxes hooked to a server with a > ga-zill-o-byte hard drive, I'd use the NeXTStation. If I was going to have > my own system or require a bunch of students to buy them (e.g. Virginia Tech) > I'd use the A3000UX. I'd be inclined to go the other way, actually. The Amiga would be more useful than the NeXT on a network because it's more standard. (aha! A reason for going with the Amiga! But in this case a SparcStation would be better still, and the lack of a disk would be relatively unimportant) > The A3000UX is better suited to the single user, who > may or may not even have a UUCP connection, much less a twisted pair going > to his home. Yeh, but a stock Amiga running AmigaOS is even better. Both machines *with UNIX* *are* workstations. They're not PCs. (to me a personal computer should cost no more than the down-payment on a family car: the largest single cash expenditure that most people are willing to make) I can see Amiga UNIX as something to sell to Amiga owners later. I will probably buy a copy later (after I get that cheap 040 card people keep talking about), but it's just not something I can believe in as a way to open lots of new markets. > Disclaimer: I'm an Amiga owner and developer. I like the NeXT line. I > just hate Steve Jobs and his business practices. What's Woz doing? -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .