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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!hela.iti.org!ais.org!kelson
- From: kelson@ais.org (David Lewis)
- Subject: Re: A4000 Educational Discount UNIX and Networking...
- Message-ID: <Bz4pBD.Cu2@ais.org>
- Organization: UMCC
- References: <Byy9ry.MKJ@dcs.ed.ac.uk> <1992Dec8.175226.45502@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 04:18:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec8.175226.45502@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> jamiller@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
- >In article <Byy9ry.MKJ@dcs.ed.ac.uk>, dcc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (David Crooke) writes:
- >> I have suggested (by e-mail) to Commodore that they consider, as an
- >> alternative to an educational discount policy on the A4000, offering a
- >> free Amix/X11 licence to any educational purchaser who obtains an A4000
- >> through normal channels. I am at the moment torn between the choice of
- >
- >I may be mistaken but I don't think C= has released a '40 compatable
- >Unix yet. As of yet I have heard nothing of it being or even close to
- >being released.
- >
- >I whole heartedly encourage support for UNIX though. It will attract
- >some of the best programmers available to the platform as it is.
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- Our company is about to do a major switch over to UNIX, and if they
- were to offer the a4000 with UNIX at a real price we would probably
- buy some for a gurantee. The REAL problem I think they need to focus
- on in the UNIX area is the fact that there dealers dont know enough!
- we have *1* dealer within about 300 miles (dont know how far past 300
- after 300 I stopped looking) that can sell us an amiga with UNIX. But
- the frustrating thing is.. THEY DONT KNOW HOW TO DEMONSTRATE IT..
- or even RUN it.. I tried to get a demonstration from there for over
- 1 year! it was broke and they couldnt fix it.. or get it to run. Now
- this is Detroit and I KNOW there are a lot of high volume unix machines
- sold in this area. I soley blame that for the failure of Amiga UNIX.
- I really hope they do something.. I would like to be able to put them
- on our System bids we make.
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