Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!ll-xn!oberon!pollux.usc.edu!papa From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Pournelle in August Byte... Message-ID: <10890@oberon.USC.EDU> Date: 20 Jul 88 01:52:05 GMT References: <3310@polya.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@oberon.USC.EDU Reply-To: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) Organization: Felsina Software, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 18 In article <3310@polya.Stanford.EDU| ali@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ali T. Ozer) writes: |Seems like Jerry is getting to like his 2000 more and more. |In the August Byte, he first mentions Unix for the 2000, favorably. |Then he talks about his ROM upgrade (to 1.3, I guess?) and says: |"...the Amiga can be reset and rebooted from a RAM disk. That takes only |a few seconds. I don't know of any other computer that can boot from its own |RAM disk. ... All in all, the Amiga sees to be improving steadily." |Looks like Commodore's hard work at trying to set him straight |is finally paying off! Let's hope this trend continues. If CBM gave him a 386 accelerator that WORKS with the BrigeCard, he'd love it even more. That problem is one that he is most upset about. Anybody listening at CBM? -- Marco Papa 'Doc' -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= uucp:...!pollux!papa BIX:papa ARPAnet:pollux!papa@oberon.usc.edu "There's Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Diga!" -- Leo Schwab [quoting Rick Unland] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=