Amiga 3000 UX & 2410 Graphics Adapter

[Masaru Sugai]

In article <373 at karp.albany.edu> hammond at karp.albany.edu.UUCP (William F Hammond) writes:
>In article <DOCONNOR.91Jun27085655 at titania.srg.UUCP> uunet!srg!titania!doconnor writes:
>>The other option would be to let authorized dealers install UNIX off tape
>>onto customer systems. This will probably happen anyway : I buy UNIX from
>>my dealer, bring in my system, he hooks up his tape drive and tally ho !
>>The idea of making everybody buy a tape drive to get UNIX is IMHO crazy.
>>Dennis O'Connor,      		uunet!srg!titania!doconnor

>It would be good if there were a practical way for those who do not want
>to have tape drives to be able to have UNIX on 3000's.

>It is reasonable to expect that there will be periodic updates of the
>UNIX software, however.

>Moreover, for most systems tape will probably offer the most practical way
>of backing up user and local files.  Thus, the investment in a tape drive
>does not need to be viewed as solely for the purpose of enabling the
>installation and updating of UNIX.

 I bought A3070 expecting for AMIX as a software product, but I have to 
agree some users don't see 150MB QIC so attractive, as there are various
alternatives for backup these days ranging from removables to DAT. Isn't it
pushy to get A3070 only for AMIX ?

 I guess most people opt for AMIX because AmigaDOS makes a good compensation
for multimedia works which are next to impossible on the present UNIX platform.
I rather would like to see CD-ROM as an optional distribution medium, as it
gives several advantages for both parties.

 - CD-ROM is an indispensable source of multimedia data in 90s. 
   (BTW, does AMIX support CDROM filesystem ? )
 - Costs of CD-ROM(media cost, drive) are dropping rapidly these days.
 - CBM could appeal their commitment to MM products i.e. Amiga and CDTV.
 - We can expect XCDTV running on AMIX sometime in near future (kidding :)

 Any comment ?
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