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: <1991Feb11.121336.2167@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 11 Feb 91 12:13:36 GMT References: <1991Feb10.010110.11187@sugar.hackercorp.com> <11996@helios.TAMU.EDU> <1991Feb10.234705.14908@en.ecn.purdue.edu> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 48 In article <1991Feb10.234705.14908@en.ecn.purdue.edu> huebner@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Robert E. Huebner) writes: > 5) Multiple Serial Cards (particularly useful in UNIX applications) Nobody in our office has managed to find a use for both the serial ports on the Suns, let alone more. We're talking about a workstation here, with competition from the Sparc and MIPS low end beasts. And even if you did need such a thing, SCSI is fast enough for this. > 6) DSP boards (Okay, the next has one already, but Zorro III slots > should allow users to choose the sophistication level they need) DSPs and the like are purely a performance increment. For a price. Once you start going off into stuff like this you're better off starting with a RISC box. > 7) Arcnet compatibility SCSI. > 8) Transputer Boards (touched upon in previous posts) Transputers are not the hot shit that everyone thinks they are. Unless you have a lot of them and your problem is well adapted to them they're more trouble than they're worth. Certainly 2-4 transputer cards are just useful for education. > 9) Digitizing boards and others such as Live! or the Mandala System Real-time under UNIX? Yeh, I heard about the "real-time teleconferencing" bit, but wouldn't a cheaper box running AmigaDOS have done as well? > 11) Perhaps most importantly, CPU upgrade path and multiprocessing > potential No path to RISC in either case, so why bother? > Really this "Why do I need slots anyway" argument is starting to > sound like the old "Who really needs multitasking" battle cry. No, it's more like the old "Why do I need slots anyway" argument that used to be heard from Amiga 1000 owners everywhere. Most of the stuff you listed is either equivalent to a faster workstation or pointless under UNIX. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .