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In article <7057@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <8284@gollum.twg.com> david@twg.com (David S. Herron) writes:
>> I expect that Unix running on Amiga would give me a much faster/nicer 
>> environment than a 386 clone or a NeXT (tho' comparing to NeXT is much
>> closer in those terms).

>And I can't see how it could be afster than the NeXT, given the NeXT has a 
>faster processor and a better base operating system (Mach vs. System V).

Uh, if you're thinking of NeXTs you can actually buy today, they have the same speed
processor -- a 25MHz 68030.  I like the Mach kernel, and I'd say that even if I
didn't get my degree at CMU.  But the overall NeXT OS environment, which includes
NeXTStep as well, is awfully slow.  Though I've never used it from a real hard
disk, or as a plain UNIX machine -- it should approach the speed of the A3000 at
most UNIXish things.  AmigaOS is faster at quite a few things than UNIX, but also
of course unprotected.

I think one of the main advantages of Amiga UNIX is that it's Standard UNIX.  You
have a zillion '386 machines out there, and if they're not running one of the
ugly MS operating systems, they're running System V, probably 3.x but soon moving
to 4.0.  If you're thinking of Workstations and GUIs, according to Personal Workstation
there are nearly twice as many shipping OpenLook applications as those for any other
UNIX GUI, thanks to the large installed base of Sun machines.

>As for the environment... have you *used* a NeXT? It's to other workstations
>what the Amiga is to other PCs. 

It's alot like the A1000 -- nice and pretty, but not, out of the box, comparable
to other Workstations.  For instance, its the only machine in the Workstation
category in recent memory without external cache (except the original Sun 4s, which
had 100% 0-wait state memory, which in a uniprocessor system certainly eliminates 
the need for any cache).  Fortunately, like the A1000, it has a very sound 
architecture, so I suspect the '040 machines, if they're out in time, will be
pretty cool.

The software environment is really cool.  And, like most modern machines (including
both the Mac and the Amiga), the first NeXT struggled to run this OS.  But it looks
pretty, and it comes with lots of development tools, some of the best on any
machine.  At least for the moment.

>Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
><peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.


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