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From: nygardm@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Michael T. Nygard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: A3000UX, is the hardware the same?
Summary: Is the A3000UX hardware the same as A3000?
Keywords: unix
Message-ID: <1991Apr1.090035.22477@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 1 Apr 91 09:00:35 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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I haven't yet had a chance to play with a 3000UX, but I have got the Commodore
brochure on it. (It's the one that says "Born to run Unix SVR4".)  In the
center, it has a picture of what is presumably the motherboard of the 3000UX.
Well, it looks very familiar.  Identical in fact.  I looked at my stock 3000 and
I can't see anything different (except the 8MB fast ram :-).
  Does anyone know if there is a hardware difference, or is it all in the 
software?  If so, will 3000 owners be able to run Unix?
  (Maybe the difference is in those empty ROM sockets?  Would a ROM switcher 
board work?)
  
  Thanks in advance for any info!

Mike Nygard
"I hate vi!"

nygardm@coil.cco.caltech.edu