Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!mips!apple!uokmax!occrsh!mndcrme!bn From: bn@mndcrme.UUCP (Bo Najdrovsky) Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga Subject: Re: some questions Message-ID: Date: 12 Jun 91 05:18:09 GMT Article-I.D.: mndcrme.bn.3366 References: <1991Jun10.212147.19177@meteor.wisc.edu> Organization: My lil' A500 at home running UUCP Lines: 59 In article <1991Jun10.212147.19177@meteor.wisc.edu> foley@phoebus.meteor.wisc.edu (Jonathan Foley) writes: >I have never used an Amiga so please bear with me. You've missed out.. 8-) > >I am using a bunch of Unix workstations at my office (Sun Sparcstations, >etc.) and I would like to get something like this for my own personal >use at home. I have heard that the Amiga 3000 is a pretty good computer >and that it can run a flavor of Unix and X11. True... > >Is this really true? Sure is... >Can someone buy an Amiga with Unix and X11 already >installed? Plug and play... Unix along with X comes installed on the HD. > How much would something like that cost - with the appropriate >hardware setup? Our local dealer has the whole thing, with a multisync monitor for $6000. that includes: A3000UX, 1950 MultiSync, Ethernet adapter, Unix, 10 megs or RAM, 210 meg HD. > How well does something like this work? What kind of >hardware is involved? Works quite well, though the current X server is kinda slow. Byte mag compared the machine to equivalent NeXT and Mac, and concluded that the Amiga wins hands down in overall speed. > What version of X11 is it? What kind of window >manager does the X11 server use? Can you get Motif for the Amiga? >Etc...? Right now its X11R3, however it will be X11R4 as of this summer... It runs Open Look since this is the default window manager for SVR4. There is a lot of talk about porting Motif to it here on C.U.A. however, I believe that people will have to have X11R4 first.... Commodore folks are saying that it will ship with the new revision of Unix (2.0) by the middle of summer. > >Any information about Amiga Unix/X11 would be most appreciated. > Does the above qualify?? 8-) -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Bo Najdrovsky ...uunet!att!occrsh!mndcrme!bn | // | | | // | | "...they've got nothing to loose, they're building empire!" | \X/ AMIGA | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------