Want info on Amiga 3000
Dave Haynie
daveh at cbmvax.commodore.com
Wed Feb 20 02:47:57 AEST 1991
In article <1991Feb7.005216.19511 at demott.com> kdq at demott.com (Kevin D. Quitt) writes:
> I'm new to this group so treat me kindly. I'm looking for a SYSV
>UNIX box, 68030 25MHz+, 4+MB RAM, 100+ MB disk, 12+ serial ports (all
>running at 19.2K). I was told to ask this group (so I'm asking). Does
>the 3000 have all these things?
The smaller A3000UX bundle comes with 68030 at 25MHz, 4MB RAM, 100MB disk. Add
to that two C= A2232 boards, and you get basically what you're looking for.
The A2232 is a card with 7 RS-232 ports on it, each of which can run up to
19,200 Baud (the card has a small CPU on it to manage buffering of the
ports).
>What is the bus (VME?).
The bus is an Amiga proprietary bus, called Zorro III. It supports Amiga
specific 16/24 and 32/32 bit cards. It's a smaller form factor than the
typical VME (6U or 9U), but quite sufficient. The performance of the 16/24
cards is roughly equivalent to ISA bus on the PC Clones, while the performance
of the 32/32 bit cards is roughly equivalent to EISA. Additional information
on the bus itself is available from Commodore, or informally on comp.sys.amiga.
hardware.
>Kevin D. Quitt demott!kdq kdq at demott.com
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