Ami 3000UX and 500

[Loren E. Heal]

gallo at cs.albany.edu (Andrew Gallo) writes:
>...
>little to spend for it).  I'm also thinking of buying a low-end Ami for
>...
>does the UX come with AmiDOS as well?  
>...

The 3000UX runs either AT&T SVR4 Unix or AmigaDos (1.3 or 2.0).
You decide at boot time which 'un you want.  I understand (from
sources close to my CBM marketing rep :-) than CBM is working on a
keyboad toggle to switch between the two on the fly.

>	Also, does anyone have experience connecting a UX to an MS-DOS PC?
>I already have an antiquated XT clone with tons of software.  I thought it
>might be nice to network it to the UX.  What is the best and most economical
>method?  Ethernet thinwire?  Null modem?  

It's complicated but not impenetrable to connect a PC (either MSDOS
or Amiga or any other machine with a "standard" RS-232 port) to a
3000UX.  The process was new to me; my other machines run BSD, not
this work-alike (big grin, flames >/dev/null, etc.).

It's documented in the man pages; look under sacadm and pmadm, as
well as /etc/ttydefs, ttymon.  My machine is getting a ROM
upgrade right now, or I'd be more specific.
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