Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!spool.mu.edu!uunet!sugar!peter From: peter@Sugar.NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: A3000UX in PCW Message-ID: <1991Jun30.015457.17258@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> Date: 30 Jun 91 01:54:57 GMT Article-I.D.: Sugar.1991Jun30.015457.17258 References: <1991Jun28.185652.1@cc.helsinki.fi> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 29 In article <1991Jun28.185652.1@cc.helsinki.fi> jalkio@cc.helsinki.fi writes: > In the new Personal Computing World (the leading British mag.) is a > short review of A3000UX. The headline is "Commodore loses its way" and I would tend to agree. The A3000UX isn't something I would particularly recommend, at least for business or academic use. It does sound like a better way to get UNIX for individuals. More than anything else it's like the Bridge board. "UNIX support" is coming to be the same sort of line item for purchasing to check off like "PC compatibility". But... > the article states, among other things, that the thing runs X-windows > very slowly (no, I haven't had a change to try it myself yet). So much for > the said sluggishness of the NeXTstep... The writer What, because X windows is sluggish that means NeXTSTeP isn't? They both suck canal water through a dirt garden hose... > continues by comparing the A3000UX with a NeXTstation and the conclusion > is that he doesn't find any reason to buy an Amiga since you get much > more for your money with the NeXT (or SPARC, for that matter). You do, if the NeXT or Sparc is exactly what you need. Both pretty much need a network to tango, though (the NeXT less so, the equivalent priced Sparc is diskless... the NeXT just comes with no expansion and barely enough disk space). -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' . 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"