Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!lobster!nuchat!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: <1991Feb13.231511.5001@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 13 Feb 91 23:15:11 GMT References: <8298@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <1991Feb12.080356.22413@portia.Stanford.EDU> <1991Feb13.155024.4860@cc.helsinki.fi> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 24 In article <1991Feb13.155024.4860@cc.helsinki.fi> jalkio@cc.helsinki.fi writes: > So, it is the question of sophistication and speed. Would you rather use > MS-DOS or some windowing system? Are you at all familiar with AmigaOS? It's a lot more than MS-DOS... in some respects it's a damn sight better than UNIX: it's faster, supports real time better than Mach (remember, real-time and VM go together like a horse and porsche), and has a higher level windowing system than X or NextStep (not as fancy or complete, but the base API is higher level... it is to X as UNIX is to (say) OS/360). By the by, I'm done playing devil's advocate on this. The Amiga 3000UX clearly does have real advantages over the NeXT: a smaller UNIX, for one. The ones that most people have been pushing (color, slots) are nice, but the tighter design of V.4 (can you believe that?) seems to give it more of an edge. I do think it needs to come down some in price to really take off... it's a few hundred dollars too high to be the clear winner for the bean counters. Gotta differentiate it better from the 386 clones also running V.4 and Open Look, and the low-end workstations. (still hoping for AmigaOS under UNIX... or vice-versa) -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .