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Title:AMIGA NOTES
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Created:Sat Apr 26 1986
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1689.0. "PC Week/Amiga in USENET" by CSSE::WARD () Thu Sep 15 1988 13:44

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Path: decwrl!labrea!agate!pasteur!ames!elroy!gryphon!cadovax!keithd
Subject: Amiga in PC Week
Posted: 13 Sep 88 18:08:08 GMT
Organization: Contel Business Systems, Torrance, CA
Posted: Tue Sep 13 11:08:08 1988
 
 
Here's a interesting little tidbit I found in PC Week Sept 12, pg 44:
 
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Another Hombre has a somewhat slanted list of things to do while waiting
for Presentation Manger applications:
 
1. Buy an Amiga.  Every significant new feature in OS/2 was done first
   on the Amiga: multitasking, interprocess communications, color graphics
   interface as well as large amounts of directly addressable memory.
 
2. Buy an Amiga.  When IBM first released the PS/2 machines, it copied
   several features from Commodore's Amiga: analog RGB video, a bus that
   supports multiprocessing, a built-in color display adapter, built-in
   serial, parallel and mouse ports, 3-1/2 inch floppy disks and high-
   resolution color graphics.
 
3. Buy an Amiga.  It's more IBM-compatible (using a Bridge Board) with the
   classic PC, XT and AT machines than the PS/2.
 
4. Buy an Amiga.  Its slick graphics and easy-to-use operating system are
   tight and solid, unlike OS/2, which requires as much as 4M bytes just
   to run.
 
5. Buy and Amiga.  The best-ever microcomputer implementation of Unix is
   coming for the Amiga this fall.
 
All that's just the half of it, amigos, he says.
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Keith Doyle
#  {ucbvax,decvax}!trwrb!cadovax!keithd  Contel Business Systems 213-323-8170
 
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1689.1Yeah!LEDS::ACCIARDIHeisenberg may have slept hereThu Sep 15 1988 13:524
    
    Gawd, I love it.  Anyone important ever read PC Week?
    
    Ed.
1689.2PCResource, October 1988RDCV01::RANDREWSOut of his mind, but not dangerousFri Sep 16 1988 03:1631
    Well, I don't know about PC Week, but I also read PCResource (we've
    got a clone at home and it helps to keep an eye on the compitition.)
    
    In the October'88 isuue, they review a bunch of ways to run MS-Dos
    programs on different systems.  PC-Ditto for the ST, PC Transporter
    for the IIGS, a few things for the Mac and of course our hero the
    Bridgeboard.  The reviewer has very nice things to say about the
    bridgeboard.  About the only things he doesn't like is the fact
    that it has only 512K ram.  he does point out that you can get standard
    plug in ram cards that work on the IBM for it.  He does love the
    fact the you can run both Amiga and Messy-dos things at the same
    time.  He does bemoan the fact that it is only 4.77 mhz, but mentions
    that CBM is working on a 80286 or 80386 version.
    
    he concludes by saying
    
    "Of the five systems I tested the Amiga 2000's multitasking operating
    system, fast graphics, and PC expansion slots make it the most
    versatile system for home and special-purpose use..."
    
    Of the costs, the Amiga is right in the middle, with the 1040st
    & pc-ditto the lowest, the IIgs next, the Amiga, and the two mac's
    fourth and fifth expensive.  NOTE: the prices show that the 2000
    and bridgeboard list for 2694, and the cheapest mac is 4153, the
    other mac is a whopping $9059!!
    
    (Prices include  hardware, and additional software (if needed))
                                   
    All in all ,the Amiga looks like the winner (as if we didn't know
    that)
    
1689.3UNIX for real?HJUXB::SCODATue Sep 20 1988 16:114
    UNIX for real? Anybody have any idea of what flavor, and what utilities
    will be provided,,, and cost? Does the Amiga have hardware memory
    management - can you run UNIX without it? 
    
1689.4Mostly rumorsCSSE::WARDTue Sep 20 1988 16:419
    Sterling L. Brown writes that the UNIX is System V, Release 3.1
    
    NCR runs unix with 68010 - I've been told MM can be done in the
        Unix kernal.
    
    Unix World stated release I and MSDOS for around $6,000.  I'd
    wait.... Given CBMs penchant for delay, I wouldn't plan on anything
    this year (I'd give a 50/50 before christmas - September was to
               be the original month and everything is slipping)
1689.5Definitely comingNAC::PLOUFFBeautiful downtown LittletonTue Sep 20 1988 16:5211
    See the Usenet comp.sys.amiga notesfile, MSBIS::AMIGA_USENET,
    especially notes 1831 and 1859.  Briefly, Commodore plans to package
    the A2000 with the A2620 processor board and Unix to become a new
    product: the A2500UX.  The A2620 contains a 68020, 68881 floating
    point unit and 68851 memory management unit, as well as (megabytes
    of?) DRAM, and plugs into the A2000 CPU slot.
    
    The A2620 is real enough that _Amiga Sentry_ ran an article on it
    earlier this year by its designer, Dave Haynie.

    Wes