Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!sunic!uupsi!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!prls!pyramid!cbmvax!amix!ag From: ag@amix.commodore.com (Keith Gabryelski) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Random Amiga/Unix topics (Was: Amiga Whirled UNIX bashing) Message-ID: <298@amix.commodore.com> Date: 1 Mar 90 15:42:51 GMT References: Reply-To: ag@amix.commodore.com (Keith Gabryelski) Organization: Commodore Amix Development Lines: 26 In article mwm@raven.pa.dec.com (Mike Meyer) writes: >> The current definition of a "minimal" amiga unix system is (roughly): >> an '030 based amiga w/ 5Mb ram, 105Mb disk, and streaming tape. >> Pricing and actual release configurations not available at this time. > >[For those who forgot, a "minimal" AmigaDOS system is ~2.5 meg & >~25Meg of HD.] > >Seems like a minimal Unix station will cost about the same as 4 >minimal AmigaDOS stations. 75% of your stations is a hefty price to >pay just to get Unix. Of course, if you need Unix, you need Unix, >so you pays the price. As I said, Ken's ``current definition'' was a little behind the times. I could, if pressed, produce a 30meg system that could be used for C development, but didn't have a lot of Unix cool things. Infact, I just took a current system and removed all networking/man pages and things and I ended up with 27meg used. That doesn't seem to bad since it was a fully operation R4 system (minus any trace of a network). Pax, Keith -- ag@amix.commodore.com Keith Gabryelski ...!cbmvax!amix!ag