Date   : Sat, 23 Mar 1991 18:14:41 GMT
From   : casbah.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!tellab5!laidbak!amiganet!austral!rrezaian@ucsd.edu (Russell Rezaian)
Subject: Re: Z8001 and C900...

In article <ToL6y1w164w@ijpc.UUCP> ianj@ijpc.UUCP (Ian Justman) writes:
>MONTARON@FRP8V11.BITNET (Alexandre Montaron) writes:
>> Other thing... I perhaps will bought a prototype Unix machine made by
>>  COMMODORE... His name is C900, it works with a Z8001 (i suppose you know
>>  it?), it has a HD 20Mo, one floppy 5"1/4, 512Ko de RAM... OS: Unix Beta0.9
>>  this is also four RS232C, a monochrome terminal...
>> The price is 3000Fr so about $600 ...
>>  Doesany one ever heard of this machine... i'll ask in the COMMODORE group |
>> Bye| Alexandre Montaron <MONTARON@FRP8V11.BITNET>
>
>Gads, you have me salivating!!!!!  I know this part of the
>message belongs elsewhere, but I thought I'd ask this:  Will it
>be available in the US?  If so, that could finally put purely
>UNIX machines in the hands of commoners.  Then I could gloat as
>my pro-MESSY-DOS friends are dumbfounded of what it could do.

Yes this is wrong place, but the thread has already started.  The C900
seems to be one of many Commodore European orphan machines, if you are
interested in UNIX then look to the Amiga 3000 UX, this machine is based
off of the Amiga 3000 68030 platform, is already in final beta stages, and
is the first machine out there to run UNIX SV r4.  Drool drool drool!!!
       I have talked with a Commodore rep and supposedly it will sell with
the entire UNIX package, X.11 and I think it was open look, NFS(TCP/IP), an
ethernet board, a 200 meg hard drive and either 6 or 8 megs of ram for well
under 10,000.  The system also will support the 24bit color card that is
coming out soon...

By the way, it will also turn into an Amiga 3000 with just a slightly
different boot up procedure (you use the mouse to pull up a boot menu and
click on Amiga or UNIX for what you want).

This isn't a chep machine, but it is a nice looking low end workstation,
and it blows away anything I have seen in the Mac arena...
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