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| 2838.1 | | WJG::GUINEAU | Opening the doors of Perception | Thu Aug 17 1989 15:03 | 9 |
| > Does anyone know what the status of UNIX for the Amiga is?
RSN :-)
> Does anyone know what the minimum hardware requirements will be?
I'd guess more than 1 meg would be nice.
Definetly need a 68851 (MMU) which means A2620 or 68030 card.
Definetly a Hard Disk.
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| 2838.2 | more propoganda | SMAUG::SPODARYK | Sick for toys! | Thu Aug 17 1989 16:27 | 14 |
| I talked to one of Commodore's Unix engineers at SIGgraph and
there is a good deal of work still to be done. I believe that
much is implemented, but that the libraries to do graphics,
gadgets, etc, need attention.
He had a decent Fractal demo program running, but the slider
gadgets were very primitive. That 68030 sure is f-f-f-fast.
Initial tests have shown an Amiga w/68030 running Unix is
about 30% faster than a NeXt. How objective these tests were,
I don't know, but the engineer was excited about it.
Hasn't it been released in Europe?
~Steve
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| 2838.3 | ...and some facts ;-) | FRAMBO::BALZER | Christian Balzer DTN:785-1029 | Fri Aug 18 1989 05:07 | 15 |
| Re: .2
Nah, AMIX is currently available only for commercial developers.
I don't care for Unix and don't have 80 MB spare HD capacity (yet:-),
so I haven't installed it.
And yes, the 2630 is a quite speedy animal. If used with 4 MB RAM
onboard (allows burst cache mode) this sucker blows any Mig-IIx
out of the water (the design of the fruit box doesn't allow burst
mode).
For Unix you should have at least 2 MB of 32 bit memory, 4 MB are
recommended.
Regards,
<CB>
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| 2838.4 | But wait, there's more (to buy) | TLE::RMEYERS | Randy Meyers | Fri Aug 18 1989 13:59 | 34 |
| Re: .3
Some additional information:
Right now it looks like you need a Commodore disk controller to run
Amiga Unix, since Unix must have a driver written for it to talk
to your disk controller.
As <CB> alluded to, a 80 meg hard drive is recommended. You probably
could throw away parts of Unix and squeeze it onto a smaller drive.
The Commodore '020 and '030 board have special ROMs on them to boot
into Unix.
Someday other disk controller manufactures may support Unix, and
something may be need to be done for other processor accelerator
cards to support Unix (I'm not sure now big a deal the boot ROMs
are).
So right now, it appears to me (as far as I know) the minimum
requirements are:
A Commodore 68020 board (with at least 2 Meg 32 bit memory)
A Commodore hard disk controller
An eighty meg hard drive
The configuration of the Amiga 2500UX package is:
Amiga 2000
68020 board with 4 meg 32 bit memory
A2091 disk controller
80 meg hard drive
Streaming tape backup unit
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