Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!wuarchive!uwm.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!gblock From: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: A3000UX - Born to run UNIX SVR4 Message-ID: <9552@uwm.edu> Date: 14 Feb 91 05:13:40 GMT References: <1991Feb13.231511.5001@sugar.hackercorp.com> Sender: news@uwm.edu Reply-To: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu Lines: 34 Originator: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu From article <1991Feb13.231511.5001@sugar.hackercorp.com>, by peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva): > In article <1991Feb13.155024.4860@cc.helsinki.fi> jalkio@cc.helsinki.fi writes: > 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. > Whew... I thought that maybe there was a man on earth who would actually BELIEVE all of that stuff... I didn't think anyone's mind could be that polluted with JobItis... :) > (still hoping for AmigaOS under UNIX... or vice-versa) You mean like how A/UX runs Finder/MacOS programs under it? I don't know if you'd want that. Firstly, under A/UX, the ability to do the above is a recent addition, from what I understand, and second, Do you have ANY IDEA of how buggy that is???? It crashes at the drop of a hat, sometimes. Basically, MacOS under A/UX is like AmigaOS 1.0.... I don't think that would be a "prudent" example to put into something like this, esp. since it's oriented towards people who would not tolerate the problems..... Because of the differences between Unix and AmigaOS, it probably would pose a GREAT prob. And I wouldn't ever ask them to ship Unix with buggy code probs... Besides, if they truly don't use the custom chips, it might be a problem implementing. And MacOS under A/UX is one of the MANY reasons that A/UX is A/UX instead of Unix.... I don't understand how you would implement it w/o putting it into the Unix Kernel... And that might be a no-no if AT&T didn't approve.... > -- > Peter da Silva. `-_-' > .