Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cbmvax!daveh
From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CEBIT Commodore Announcements (A2500, A3000)
Message-ID: <3539@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 88 21:48:02 GMT
References: <1712@louie.udel.EDU>
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Lines: 31

in article <1712@louie.udel.EDU>, rminnich@udel.EDU (Ron Minnich) says:

>    Arg Arg. $7500 ?? 

One thing to consider.  The packaged system is specifically for the German
and European market; as I understand it, it may not be sold packaged in the
US.  Commodore is the top selling personal computer vendor in West Germany, and
number three in Europe.  Thus, for those areas, things can be oriented quite a
bit differently than they could in the USA.

>    The deal is, you have to interoperate if you want to be a workstation.
> That means standards, like NFS and X windows, slow or not, unreliable
> or not. 

Rico's windowing system under Amiga UNIX doesn't preclude the use of X or
News, just as Intuition in AmigaOS doesn't (both of these had reportedly been
ported to run under the Amiga environment).  What it gives you is an extremely
fast built-in windowing package for handling most UNIX applications, which tend
to be terminal oriented (pick the terminal of your choice).  Amiga users are
used to having several "virtual terminal" windows available at once, each with
a program or shell running in them; you don't want to loose this feature just
'cause you're running UNIX.

You would have to add on the Ethernet card, but it's been available for some
time now.

> ron (rminnich@udel.edu)
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