Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!hybrid!scifi!bywater!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: <1991Feb11.120543.2099@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 11 Feb 91 12:05:43 GMT References: <32530@auc.UUCP> <1991Feb10.010110.11187@sugar.hackercorp.com> <11996@helios.TAMU.EDU> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 24 In article <11996@helios.TAMU.EDU> n177ac@tamuts.tamu.edu (Daryl Biberdorf) writes: > 1) a *thick-wire* Ethernet card. This is very realistic for > large or spread-out nets. Since SCSI is 4 times as fast as Ether even if you believe in 100% saturated nets (I've found that 20% starts killing people's ethernet cards, particularly D(r)EC's), put it on the SCSI connector. > 2) a Token-Ring card (when they're available). Yes, some people > really do use T-R! Ditto. > 3) Graphics cards as they come available. (the Lowell board comes > to mind on this one) > 4) Memory cards. Is there any reason to explain why? :) These two make some sense, but wouldn't the CISC processor be a bummer once you started needing better graphics and more memory than the slab can deal with? The number of people who need a high end workstation and are willing to put up with a low-end CPU aren't exactly a huge market... -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .