From: u9148043@cs.uow.edu.au (Justin Jay Lister)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Amiga UNIX 2.1 coming to Australia, Maybe!
Date: 28 Jul 92 03:06:15 GMT
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Wollongong University, Australia

etac@levels.unisa.edu.au (Andrew Chalmers) writes:

>In article <1992Jul16.051306.25643@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au>, davidme@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au (David Meiklejohn) writes:
>> In article <18024.2a641a50@levels.unisa.edu.au> etac@levels.unisa.edu.au (Andrew Chalmers) writes:
>>>For those of you interest in Unix Version 2.1 and whether or not it's
>>>coming to Australia, It seems Commodore Australia Don't even know.
>>>
>>>While at the Sydney WoC expo I had a chat to Anita (It seems shes the only
>>>UNIX support person Commodore have,  and she doesn't do it full time).
>>
>> I had a play with the A3000UX at the show - I'd never seen C= Unix before
>> (that's how prevalent it is!  :-).  Anyway, it was sitting at a shell prompt,
>> unattended, and someone had logged in as "guest".  I had a poke about, and
>> found olwm, so I thought I'd see what X was like.  I had some trouble starting
>> it, so I asked the CBM people there if anyone knew anything about Unix.  No one
>> did - obviously Anita wasn't around.  I soon gave up, feeling unimpressed.

hmm strange i got the chinese dude to start up xwindows for me i was very 
impressed (only wish had set up in higher res). I sat there for an 1.5 hrs
looking through the machine to see how close it was to the unix i use at uni
, i had a couple of business men come up and ask me a few simple questions
(as you stated it seems that had problems finding somebody to talk to as
well). 

>> Now, the UX was in Commodore's "professional" area, with their PCs.  Here I am,
>> a Unix netadmin working for a major gov't department, but what can I look at
>> except a shell prompt on an unregarded system sitting in one corner?  No demos,
>> no nice OpenLook display, nothing.  Not exactly what I'd call professional.
>> Maybe they're not interested in selling Amiga Unix, but then why bother to have
>> a system set up there at all?  Why lead us on if there's nowhere to go?
>>
Yeah i got kicked  off the machine after my 1.5 hr stint and for what one of
the dobey morons wanted to demo aos2.04 to some fool. Couldn't work out that
there were other machines that could do what he wanted, but no he had to
disrupt me and the other few onlookers who seem to enjoy looking around the
C= unix. anyway i did happen to leave a little text file with a smilie and
my internet addr on the machine just to let them know that i was overall
impressed. The idea of my amiga being everything and anything sure did make
me wanna get a part time job, i am trying to get a amiga 3000t unix and an 
gvp ecs board and 040 board (any donations $$ or parts kindly accepted :) )
.
>You must have picked a good time to go to the stand.  I was disgusted by the
>number of times I went over the the stand to see them running AmigaDOS on the
>only UX machine they had.  In case you didn't notice, there was also a tiga
>card in the UX.  I spent some time playing around on it and managed to get the
>tiga X server going, of course it was the beta test version. I had twm running
>OpenLook didn't seem to like it must, it just froze.  Unfortunately they didn't
>have all the X programs installed so I couldn't get any interesting running.
>I didn't even get any colour other than the twm tittle bars.

>>
>> --
>>
>> David Meiklejohn                  | Internet : davidme@qdpii.comp.qpdi.oz.au
>> Computer Systems Officer, QDPI    | Fax      : +61 70 92 3593
>> Mareeba, Australia                | Voice    : +61 70 92 1555

>Andrew Chalmers

>Signal Processing Research Institute
>University of South Australia

Greatly impressed by the machine but once again unimpressed by the 
demonstrators and advisors. One claimed to know amiga dos but i mentioned 2.1
said huh 2.1 haven't heard of it (after the C= release) asked a few others
there and they had no idea either. Hmmm maybe next year i could work for them!
Maybe then we would get to see all the new stuff.
I went there wanting to see
	- gvp 040
		totally in awe, took some archives and .dms, didn't see the
the archive (un)compress (way to fast for my eyes and they 1.5 meg of hd)
undms deep compressed seemed like normal disk copies
	- a600
		impressed with the little beauty nice machine good price
		hope it gets cheaper
	- cdrom (570)
		 never did get around to seeing it :(
	- opal vision 
		 impressed by gvp ecs more (opal vision didn't show shit)
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