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From: elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Next Amiga system
Message-ID: <5741@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 7 Oct 88 05:11:31 GMT
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in article <2741@sugar.uu.net>, peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) says:
> Xref: killer comp.sys.amiga:24520 comp.sys.amiga.tech:2384
> 
> In article <3618.AA3618@heimat>, sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein) writes:
>> 		 *Plus (and this is the kicker!)
>>           Unix!
> 
> Unless I can run Deluxe Music (or whatever) under it, why should I get
> Amiga UNIX? I can take the (not inconsiderable) cost of the hardware
> necessary to put a killer UNIX on an Amiga and invest it in a 386 clone

The (not inconsiderable) cost of the hardware is the exact same amount
that you would spend to get killer AmigaDOS. Watching Mandelbrots on a
68020 machine is not the slow meditation that it is on a 68000
machine. 

I doubt that many people will get the 68020 card to run Unix. Rather,
I suspect most of them will get it to run killer Amiga.

(as for me: Yes, I'd run it, but mostly because of all the PD
Unix-based software such as GNU Emacs, which most Amigans would not be
aquainted with). 

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Q: How is Amigaworld like a (void) function?
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