Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cunixb.cc.columbia.edu!es1 From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Subject: Re: Amiga is better then what??? Message-ID: <1991Jun30.032125.8794@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Sender: usenet@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (The Network News) Nntp-Posting-Host: cunixb.cc.columbia.edu Reply-To: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Organization: Columbia University References: <1991Jun27.200127.23004@informatik.uni-erlangen.de> <1991Jun27.211005.9179@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1991 03:21:25 GMT In article scott@cs.odu.edu (Scott D. Yelich) writes: > >Also, tell me what it would take to get the Amiga 500/1000 to >run Unix, X windows and have a 1024x1024x8 display. > Who cares? That's like asking what would it take to turn a PC XT into a file server for an Ethernet LAN with 100 machines. It is pointless. You buy the machine appropriate for your needs. Of course, you CAN get that A500 to run X-Windows on a 1024x1024 4 grey-scale monitor under AmigaDOS. -- Ethan FF buckets of bits on the bus, FF buckets of bits. Take one down, Short it to ground, FE buckets of bits on the bus.