3B1 Rising Popularity
Jeff Kinz
jkinz at mony815.uucp
Sat Feb 2 10:41:30 AEST 1991
In article <233 at raysnec.UUCP> shwake at raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake) writes:
>forrie at morwyn.UUCP (Forrie Aldrich) writes:
>
>>Yes it would be NICE if someone could figure out a way to use the
>>68030 on the UNIX-PC... believe me, it would be incredible. But
>>unfortunately, I think it's impossible at this point. As doing such
>>would require all new hardware (mostly) AND I believe a new
>>KERNEL --- who's gonna write it?
>
> Well, as it happens, a successor to the UNIX-PC has already made
>its appearance. Based on the 680x0, innovative windowing, standard monitor
>and mouse. And they offer more in the way of performance and software at
>a lower list price than the original UNIX-PC price. Doesn't have an
>integral modem though. Oh yeah... it's called the NeXT.
And the Amiga 68030 box was on display at uniforum - SYSVR4 with
what looked like a complete development environment. They are sending me
price lists as this is written. I'll post if it looks interesting
(has X windows and lots else included in basic package ) I think the
initial retail price may be lower than NeXT. We'll see. :-)
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