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4174.0. "A3000UX info" by WJG::GUINEAU () Thu Oct 04 1990 19:03

Article 66863 of comp.sys.amiga:
From: soh@shiva.trl.oz (kam hung soh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: A3000UX - Brief, first impression at UNIX exhibition

At the AUUG '90 (Australian UNIX User Group) conference and
exhibition, Commodore displayed a A3000UX.  This was an A3000 with 8Mb
of memory, 100Mb harddisk, UNIX System V Release 4, TCP/IP, Ethernet,
TIGA 8 bit display card, and the X Windowing System.  Also on display
was a standard 150Mb tape drive hanging off the SCSI port.  The
demonstrator I spoke to was Johann George from the Technology Section.

As per new Commodore policy, Johann was reticent about new hardware
and software, and about how development in the UNIX area will affect
Amiga OS.  He was also unwilling to comment on any new chipset or
graphic programming interface with regards to Amiga OS.  However, he
did say that Commodore was doing work on improving the graphic display
ability of the Amiga.  Johann was also quite willing to speak about
UNIX development work, and mentioned some of the effort in cramming
Release 4 into 60 - 70 Mb of disk space.

To add a human dimension to the legendary exploits of Dave Haynie,
Johann mentioned that Dave hardly sleeps and frequently bunks under
his favorite computer.

The A3000UX had the OpenLook interface on the X Windowing System
running on a 19 inch NEC 4D(I think) monitor driven by the Tiga 1000 x
800 (?) graphic board.  Disk access speed was poor because of a hard
disk crash previously.  Graphic display consisted on xterm (VT100 X
terminal emulator), ico (X's bouncing ball demo), clock, and a
graphical version of a 15 square puzzle.  The updating speed the
windows was passable, faster than a Sun 3/60 but slower than a
SparcStation.  A cute feature is the ability to have several login
consoles, reminiscent of a terminal switching feature on DECNet (I
think).

The Commodore Australia representatives verbally quoted me a price of
about A$8000.00, with educational institutions paying A$6500.00.
However, it would be best to get a written quote, since they did not
specify exactly what will be included in the package.

AmigaVision was on display, and I had a brief demonstration of how
simple it was to create a short presentation.

It wasn't the best demonstration of a computer I had seen, but to be
fair, none of the vendors at the exhibition were showing anything
spectacular.  Most of them had X running with ico and xterm.  It was
so boring that I was tempted to ask the demonstrators the company that
supplied the monitors!  IBM had its R6000 workstation, DEC with
DECstations, Sun with Sparcs, ....  Oh, The endless monotony of
workstation after workstation!

Your intrepid reporter,

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Soh, Kam Hung      email: h.soh@trl.oz.au     tel: +61 03 541 6403 
Telecom Research Laboratories, P.O. Box 249, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia 

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4174.1No More Seminars!CRISTA::CAPRICCIOFat: The *Natural* InsulatorFri Oct 05 1990 15:2512
    John, you'd better catch up on some sleep this weekend, okay? ;^)
    Between school, work, seminars and writing drivers, you're coming apart
    at the seams! Why, you ask? Your base note was already posted as a
    reply to note 4146 (reply .9). No big deal, but check out the "For
    Sale" note; anything about 8.192 and 8.196 look familiar?!?

    Sorry, I couldn't help myself,

    Pete

    P.s. Just teasing, keep the good stuff coming!