From: Michael L. VanLoon (michaelv@iastate.edu)
Date: 09/04/93


From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Subject: Re: BSD UNIX
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1993 19:49:56 GMT

In <CCu0s1.29o@ssesco.com> rhealey@gorp.ssesco.com (Rob Healey) writes:

>In article <michaelv.747102277@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) writes:
>>In <CGD.93Sep3160517@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU> cgd@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes:
>>
>>> amiga "production"
>>
>>>re: amiga: just because binaries aren't available on -lamp doesn't
>>>mean it's not in production use... there are many places carrying
>>>binaries for it in europe, but their names all escape me right now...
>>
>>Finally, a reason to buy an Amiga... :-) I'm almost tempted.
>>
> Hey now! B^). I'll pit the 3000's 0.9 I/O performance against any
> 386 or 486 based system any day!

This is exactly why I made my comment. I've never been terribly fond
of the Amiga OS, but I would take a 68k processor box over the Intel
crap any day, if I could run the same software on each.

I truly think it would be worth picking up a used Amiga just to turn
into a unix (NetBSD) box.

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  Michael L. VanLoon                           Project Vincent Systems Staff
  michaelv@iastate.edu              Iowa State University Computation Center
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