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From: watters@favorite.cis.ohio-state.edu (david r watters)
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Subject: Re: Is the A3000 Really Worth Buying? An honest question.
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Date: 27 May 91 08:27:20 GMT
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In article <21895@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:

>Strangely enough, the A2500 came into existence based on a desire to run UNIX,
>even though it managed to essentially get replaced a couple of times before 
>UNIX was done.
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Interesting, behind the scenes info deleted. (How about some more?!)
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>So, while not as ideal for UNIX as an A3000, these A2500 systems were designed
>with UNIX in mind.  The Amiga will handle UNIX better than most personal
>computers because it was designed with multitasking in mind, so things are DMA
>and interrupt driven rather than PIO and polled.

Which leads to another important question.  While the A3000 is a _great_ unix
platform, How well will the A2500/30 do with Unix.  Can you give any info on
if this will finally come to be, and what all will be involved (hardware/cost)?

Rephrased, if you have a A2500/30 and would like to do Unix, for school, work,
and fun, will it be nice (ie. not that bad), or should you regroup and get
an A3000architecture machine?

>Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests"

I think we should call to votes a new newsgroup called:
Comp.Sys.Amiga.Ask_Dave_Haynie!

            
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