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From: kek@pbhyd.UUCP (Kevin Keith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Questions on UNIX, Terminal Emulation, & Hard Disks.
Message-ID: <1088@pbhyd.UUCP>
Date: 28 Dec 87 22:07:34 GMT
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Organization: Pacific Bell, San Ramon, Calif.
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Keywords: UNIX, HARD DISK

(1) UNIX SHELL: I'm a relatively new A500 owner and am used to large main
    frame systems.  Could someone tell me if it's possible to get UNIX (shell,
    awk, etc.) on an A500?  I often see articles about "C" but little is
    mentioned about UNIX shell.  What would it take to get UNIX going and
    how much of it can I get? How much memory/disk space would be required.

(2) TERMINAL EMULATION: I've seen several articles about "vt100" terminal
    emulation on the A500.  Are other terminal types possible?

(3) HARD DISKS: Can anyone supply information about a hard disk for the A500
    which costs about the same as hard disks for other systems.  I've seen
    20MB disks for between $500 and $600 for Atari systems but the same thing
    for an Amiga seems to run over $800.  Am I looking in the wrong places or
    are they really that much more?

(4) SUBJECT LINES:  This news group gets LOTS articles each day.  And I spend
    lots of time sifting through articles (looking at "Subject:" lines with
    the "=" command).  It would be very helpful if submitters would write
    subject lines which are meaningful and which give a good idea of what
    the article concerns.  Subject lines with nothing more than "HELP",
    "QUESTIONS" or "PROBLEMS" are not much help.

	Thanks,
	Kevin Keith