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From: perley@trub.steinmetz (Donald P Perley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AM(iga un)IX
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Date: 21 Mar 89 23:31:51 GMT
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In article <2421@sbcs.sunysb.edu> root@sbcs.sunysb.edu (root) writes:
>In article <74@snll-arpagw.UUCP>, paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci) writes:
>> In article <6330@cbmvax.UUCP> ditto@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto) writes:
>> ->In article <72@snll-arpagw.UUCP> paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci) writes:


>>   If I may make an analogy, fully relying
>> on third party developers to provide an Ethernet card on a Unix
>> machine is like relying on third party developers for floppy drives,
>> and selling an Amiga 2000 without any.

Well, Commodore does rely on other companies for floppy drives.


>> I hope that some priority is being put in being abe to use the Amiga as a
>> diskless node.  I think that it would be a very competitive Unix machine.
>> I also hope that NFS would become available as quickly as possible.

I am not all that hot on diskless nodes myself.  NFS is great, being able
to access files all over the place, but remember that you are limited to
a total of about 1.2 mbyte/sec.  When you start splitting that among
a large number of stations, it would be nice to at least have memory
paging on a local disk.


>	for future growth at all.  Commodore really needs to spend all
>	of its available cycles AND THEN SOME on getting device
>	independent graphics, new graphics chips, the Hedley, 68030 based
>	machines, etc to market.

>					Rick Spanbauer

Yes.  It would be a shame if they missed the boat on, say, HDTV compatability
because they were spending their effort duplicating some peripheral that is
already available. 


-don perley