Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!ncar!boulder!sunybcs!bingvaxu!leah!itsgw!imagine!pawl15.pawl.rpi.edu!jesup From: jesup@pawl15.pawl.rpi.edu (Randell E. Jesup) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: AMIX? Message-ID: <862@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> Date: 7 May 88 05:05:34 GMT References: <466@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> <863@gethen.UUCP> <391@brambo.UUCP> <926@elmgate.UUCP> <1250@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Sender: news@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU Reply-To: jesup@pawl15.pawl.rpi.edu (Randell E. Jesup) Organization: RPI Public Access Workstation Lab - Troy, NY Lines: 66 In article <1250@sbcs.sunysb.edu> root@sbcs.sunysb.edu (SBCS Systems Staff) writes: > disk not applicable > 1152x900 BW non interlaced monitor > 15 mHz 68020 > 4 mBytes 32 bit ram, parity checked parity = 1/8 greater chance of failure :-) > Ethernet/cheapernet controller > DMA SCSI controller > fast MMU > 2 serial ports > *real* Unix (think I'll trademark that) > --- > $5.2K > Commodore, will field something that looks like this: > > disk not applicable > 1008x800 BW non interlaced monitor ~$750 grey-scale (7 levels), not BW. > 14.318 mHz 68020 $1500 > 1 mByte 32 bit ram 4 sorry, the A2500UX mentioned in Hannover was 4 Meg. > DMA ST506/SCSI controller $350 > 68851 MMU (1 wait state) > B2000/1 serial port, 1 parallel port ~$1500 Extra serial ports will soon be available, as is ram expansion, video boards, etc, etc. The 2000 is an expandable system, unlike the 3/50. Can a 3/50 have more than the standard 4 Meg memory? > SysV Unix (yuck) $800 The European Unix market wants Sys V, not BSD. Also, where did the $800 come from (not that I have any knowlege one way or the other.) Also, you get free color video (Sun color workstations are NOT cheap.) > ------ > $4900 > Rick Spanbauer > SUNY/Stony Brook Don't get me wrong, I like Suns (I've had them on my desk, and soon will again.) Even a Sun 100U (Sun-1) isn't bad to have, though I HATE that silly vt100 keyboard. Of course, having 6 or 7 meg memory doesn't hurt. :-) I think the more appropriate comparison would be to the lowest- level Sun-3 with a backplane for expansion, not the (normally) diskless, unexpandable workstation (plus I thought they were replacing the 3/50 with the 3/60). // Randell Jesup Lunge Software Development // Dedicated Amiga Programmer 13 Frear Ave, Troy, NY 12180 \\// beowulf!lunge!jesup@steinmetz.UUCP (518) 272-2942 \/ (uunet!steinmetz!beowulf!lunge!jesup) BIX: rjesup (-: The Few, The Proud, The Architects of the RPM40 40MIPS CMOS Micro :-)