A3000UX - Born to run UNIX SVR4

Sat Feb 2 05:05:08 AEST 1991

Commodore Amiga 3000UX - BORN TO RUN UNIX SVR4
----------------------------------------------

When it comes to computers for professionals today, two facts stand
out indisputably.

One fact is that, across the board, from super-computers to single-
user workstations, UNIX System V Release 4 is simply the standard
to adopt.  For system portability.  For user friendliness.  For
networking.  For compatibility of architecture.  For future Growth.

The other fact is that the new Commodore Amiga 3000UX is the computer
that put UNIX SVR$ on your desk right now.  Affordably.  Reliably.
Ergonomically.  With a completeness of design that already has the
industry experts raving.

To the world, perhaps, the emergence of the Amiga 3000UX is a stunning
revelation; a pratical UNIX System V Release 4 workstation that 
outperforms systems many times its cost.  To us at Commodore, however,
it is the culimination of a long and careful process.  We developed
and marketed earlier versions of UNIX System V, and we were one of 
the first companies to demonstrate UNIX SVR4.  While others boasted
of their achievements, we at Commodore have quietly and determinedly
gone about the business of putting all of the strategic advances of
SVR4 into a box that you can plug in and turn on.

And we've done it.  The Amiga 3000UX is proving itself in offices,
classroom and laboratories nationwide.  And, like all Commodore
solutions, it stands alone in capability for its price class.  
Prove it to yourself.  Turn the page.

It begins with power.  More specifically, 8 MB fast RAM -- or optionaly
16 MB fast RAM -- of power, packed into a 32-bit Motorola processor.
Giving you all the power you need to run UNIX System V Release 4,
along with the X Window System (tm) and the Open Look (tm) Graphical
User Interface, which are both provided on every pre-loaded Amiga
3000UX system.  Plus such standard networking capabilities as
NFS, TCP/IP and Ethernet (tm).

And we're talking about an ABI-compliant industry standard UNIX SVR4,
not some proprietary implementation.  This is not just another hardware
clone.  The Amiga 3000UX is the real thing.

READY TO RUN.  OUT OF THE BOX.

Open the box, plug in the Amiga 3000UX, and you have a complete 
Release 4 system up and running on your desktop.  With no installation
delays or unplanned reconfigurations.  It's that simple.  We designed
the Amiga 3000UX to be a totally integrated system that provides all
of the tools of SVR4 as standard equipment.

When we say the Amiga 3000UX system comes complete, we mean complete.
With built-in multi-format floppy disk drive.  Internal and external
disk capacity.  A 94-key keyboard.  An available color or monochrome
display.  A mouse.  RAM expansion capability to 18 MB on the mother-
board.  And full system software, including thousands of on-line 
UNIX manual pages.

EVERYTHING UNIX HAS TO GIVE

The Amiga 3000UX was concieved by and for the users of UNIX System
V Release 4.  If you can do it with Release 4, you can do it with 
the Amiga 3000UX.  And probably do it better.  That includes the
following capabilities:

- The X Window System and all SVR4 graphic functions without 
  modification.

- Open Look Graphical User Interface and Tool Kit.

- Bourne Shell, Berkeley Shell, Korn Shell, Restricted Shell,
  Remote Shell and Job Control Shell.

- RFS and NFS networking utilities which, when used with Virtual
  File Format, make it easier to build large, heterogenous 
  system.

- elm, making electronic mail simple for even a new user.

- Emacs and vi, to provide a variety of text and program 
  editing options.

But having full command of UNIX SVR4 is just the beginning of what
you can do with the Amiga 3000UX.  It is, after all, the progeny of
long line of systems famous for their graphic, multitasking and 
multi-media talents.  And that means built-in access to AmigaDOS(tm)
and Amiga high-resoultion graphics.  Control of color fonts, character
size and other display elements.  Overscanning screen size.  The
ability to drive high-resolution, megapixel displays.  
Internationalization for foreign keyboards.  And a host of other 
advantages that only an Amiga user can take for granted.

If you really want to know how the Amiga 3000UX brings UNIX System
V Release 4 to the workstation, you should ask the people who use
it.  So we did.  Listen to what Amiga 3000UX users at some of the
nation's leading institutions, and a leading publication, have to
say.

"The Amiga just far outperformed the others."

Last year, after years of using Apple Macintosh systems, Virginia
Tech's Computer Science Department decided to change suppliers for
their student computers.  The school's computer science majors
are required to buy UNIX-based systems, and fron now on, the 
Department says, they'll be buying Amigas.

The decision was not a hasty one.  The department carried out an
exhaustive review of systems from all the major UNIX players -- 
nearly 20 in all -- before making a choice.  And the winner was
the Amiga 3000UX.  Why?  Ask James Arthur, Associate Professor
of Computer Sciences at Virginia Tech and Chairman of the 
department's PC selection commitee.

The Amiga 3000UX, Arthur says "was head and shoulders above the
other machines.  The Amiga just far outperformed the others.  We
could have been conservative and gone with the IBM or the Epson, or
we could go out on a limb and get a lot more machine for the money."

"We have been using Amiga almost from day one."

At Westinghouse Science and Technology Center's Human Sciences 
Department in Pittsburgh, the Amiga is an indispenable part of 
the company's advanced research efforts.  Lab Manager Gary Sherwin
is crystal-clear about the reasons.

"We have been using the Amiga for advanced scientific research 
almost from day one," says Sherwin.  "I like the solidity of 
UNIX and the usefulness of being able to run multiple operating
systems on the same machine."

"The most complete implementation of UNIX SVR4."

YOu may have seen Ben Smith's review of the Amiga 3000UX in the
December, 1990 issue of Byte magazine.  In this article, titiled
"A UNIX Graphics Workstation for the Rest of the World," Smith had
this to say about the Amiga 3000UX:

"This workstation is the most complete implementation of the new
AT&T UNIX System V Release 4. ...[It] is not a clone, nor a work-alike,
nor a toy.  It is no-nonsense workstation that is impressive and 
compact.... The Amiga 3000UX greatly outperforms the equivalent
NeXT and Macintosh with A/UX... it is an obvious choice as a low-end
workstation."

"As slick an implementation as any I've seen"

At the University of Southern California, Amiga 3000UXs are up and 
running after being connected with the school's existing network.
How does USC Director of Systems Maqrk Brown rat the Amiga's 
connectivity?  Listen:

"[It is] as slick an implementation as any I've seen," Brown says.
"We took it out of the box, switched it on and connected it to our
network.  It worked fine."

"Amiga UNIX is impressive implementation of System V Release 4."

Richard A. Miner, Research Manager at the University of Lowell's
Center for Productivity Enhancement, makes these observations about
the Amiga 3000UX as a research tool:

"Here at Lowell, we run an industry-conscious center where we 
conduct research and development of hardware and software for 
Fortune 500 companies.  We have been working with the Amiga UNIX
System since the early prototype stage, and have produced a significant
number of applications and development tools.  The robust implementation
of the operating system and environment, along with the availablity
of standards in Amiga UNIX, have enabled us to integrate with our
other systems and port numerous applications.  Amiga UNIX is an 
impressive implementation of System V Release 4."

SITE SERVICE CONTRACT

If you think the Amiga 3000UX itself is something to get excited 
about, wait until you see the Amiga guarantee; if you have any
problems or questions about your Amiga 3000UX system, we will do
everything we can to solve the problem -- even making a hardware
service visit to your site, at no additional cost, for the first
year from the date of purchase.

Here's how it works:

When you have a question or problem, you call our tool-free number
where a trained Amiga customer service specialist, seated at an
Amiga 3000UX just like yours, will help you solve your problem.
If that doesn't do it, we'll connect you with an engineer who will
continue working with you.  And if it's a hardware problem that we
can't solve through our customer service system, we'll send a 
technician out to your location to solve it.  At no additonal 
cost for the first year.

All of which means that when you come in to see the Amiga 3000UX
for yourself, we can guarentee that you'll come away happy.  
We're now selecting Advanced Systems Dealers to represent the
Commodore UNIX range of systems.  For the one nearest you, call
our toll-free number, 1-800-66-AMIGA.

-------
Item to Note:

The last page showed a 3 button Commodore mouse! :-)

Folks this is one NICE flyer!

 -mark=

 +--------+   ==================================================          
 | \/     |   Mark D. Manes                    "Mr. AmigaVision" 
 | /\  \/ |   manes at vger.nsu.edu                                        
 |     /  |   (804) 683-2532    "Make up your own mind! - AMIGA"
 +--------+   ==================================================