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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A3000UX, is the hardware the same?
Keywords: unix
Message-ID: <20261@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 2 Apr 91 15:17:36 GMT
References: <1991Apr1.090035.22477@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1991Apr1.090035.22477@nntp-server.caltech.edu> nygardm@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Michael T. Nygard) writes:

>In the center, it has a picture of what is presumably the motherboard of the 
>3000UX.  Well, it looks very familiar.  Identical in fact.  

Imagine that.  It's the same thing, only variations are the basic 
configurations and perhaps the faceplate.

>  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?

Yup, soon as they decide to sell it separately.  You can even run UNIX on an
A2500 (lots of beta testers, and even our UNIX group until last summer, ran
on A2500s).

>  (Maybe the difference is in those empty ROM sockets?  Would a ROM switcher 
>board work?)

UNIX doesn't require any additional ROMs in the A3000.


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