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From: lkelly@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Lawrence Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Amiga MINIX, III
Message-ID: <8097@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
Date: 2 Jun 91 14:33:46 GMT
References: <1991Jun1.162833.18719@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Reply-To: lkelly@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Lawrence Kelly)
Organization: David Taylor Research Center, Bethesda, MD
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In article <1991Jun1.162833.18719@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>        Never mind my earlier request for an Amiga version of
>MINIX. I just read the post giving info on the various version.
>It doesn't support a HD (without additional support), it won't
>work with anything but a 68000/68010 so I can't use it anyway,
>and to top it all off they can't even remember that the drive
>size is 880K, not 720K! 1/2 8)
>
>        And they wanted me to pay $169 for THIS? They should at
>least have multiple price tiers depending on quality of the
>version!
>        -- Ethan
>
>Now the world has gone to bed,          Now I lay me down to sleep,
>Darkness won't engulf my head,          Try to count electric sheep,
>I can see by infrared,                  Sweet dream wishes you can keep,
>How I hate the night.                   How I hate the night.   -- Marvin


I agree completely!  Amiga Minix is a joke.  No A3000 support, NO HD
support, and 720k drive size??  It's a shame, because the Amiga is probably
the most compatible platform for unix.  I've heard that there is no
hard drive support because of the various types of manufacturers.  This
is not a valid reason not to provide support, as Readysoft provides
drivers for their Amax product, and they work fine.  I am sysadmin on
a couple of unix based systems, and would have very much like to have
a small version on my own system, unfortunetely, the current problems
with Amiga Minix are too large to ignore.  I can not justify spending
$169 for basically a demo, although I would definetely purchase it if
these basic problems were corrected.

     -Larry (lkelly@oasys.dt.navy.mil)