Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!srg!doconnor From: doconnor@srg.UUCP () Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga 3000 UX & 2410 Graphics Adapter Message-ID: Date: 27 Jun 91 12:56:55 GMT References: <2307@tekig7.MAP.TEK.COM> Sender: news@srg.uucp (News Administrator) Reply-To: uunet!srg!titania!doconnor Organization: Some Lines: 28 In-Reply-To: metahawk@aix01.aix.rpi.edu's message of 26 Jun 91 22:15:28 GMT metahawk@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (Wayne G Rigby) writes: ] >3. Would it be possible to get the software seperately, so I could use my ] > current 3000? (Even if rom replacement is necessary) ] ] Commodore is suppose to be working on a UNIX kit for A3000's. It should be ] out real soon. (I think they're waiting for version 2.0 of their UNIX OS ] before they start shipping this, but this is only a guess.) You'll need ] a Q150 tape drive, like the A3070 (?), to install it though. I hope they ] will also sell it on CD. A co-worker suggested that C-A should sell UNIX pre-installed on a 100MB+ hard-drive. Just plug it in, reset the boot priority table, and go. My opinion is that this is a good idea ( the drive only costs $300 or so ) but that the drive should be larger. I've got a A3000/25-100, and I only have one internal drive bay left, and I think UNIX will eat the entire 100MB of the drive, won't it ? Now 200MB, leaving 100MB free, maybe ... The other option would be to let authorized dealers install UNIX off tape onto customer systems. This will probably happen anyway : I buy UNIX from my dealer, bring in my system, he hooks up his tape drive and tally ho ! The idea of making everybody buy a tape drive to get UNIX is IMHO crazy. -- -- Dennis O'Connor, uunet!srg!titania!doconnor non-representative.