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Re: Amiga 3000UX first impressions

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W dniu środa, 9 stycznia 1991 18:10:35 UTC+1 użytkownik John B. Sobernheim napisał:
> I have seen the light and it is called /usr/amiga/bin/fractal
> 
> 	We received a 3000UX the other day.  As far as I know this is
> a saleable unit (I am a dealer), one of the first.  The following are my
> impressions of the machine so far.  
> 
> 	The Amiga 3000UX that we received is configured with 9 MB's of
> RAM, 1MB of Chip and 8MB's of Fast (using 1mbitx4 zips).  It has a
> 200MB Hard Drive.  The Ethernet Board was also included and installed.
> (From the brochure my dad got at Comdex, I had thought the Ethernet
> board would be an optional pheripheral).  It comes with three manuals;
> Installing Amiga UNIX, Learning Amiga UNIX, and, Using Amiga UNIX.
> Unix.  There is a short command reference manual included.  There is a
> single page saying that this is a BETA release of the software and 
> manuals and that the user is eligible for a free upgrade to version 1.0
> of the software and manuals (For a $50.00 media replacement/shipping and
> handling charge :-).  The version of Unix in this A3000UX was 
> BETA 3j.  An errata page listing known bugs and problems was also 
> included.  Finally, there were two 3.5" floppy disks (3000UX Boot & Root
> File System) and an install tape cartridge as well as the standard Amiga
> software and manuals.  The system was preloaded with Unix.  I set up the 
> system with a 1950 Color Monitor and the A2232 multiple serial port card.  
> 
> 	By holding down both mouse buttons on boot, I was able to boot 
> into AmigaDos 1.3 and 2.0.  The Work: partition was set up as a circa 
> 21MB partition. 
> 
> 	By rebooting the machine without holding down the mouse buttons, it
> booted into Unix.  (On the first boot, it went through a configuration 
> script asking about network setup, passwords, etc.  I was absent through
> this procedure).  When it got to the login prompt, I logged in as root,
> and used the SYSADM (Similar to FACE on 3.2x Unix) interface to add a
> new user and home directory called tcr.  It created a /home/tcr directory
> and set up ksh as the default shell.  
> 
> 	First thing I did, as tcr, was lock up the console :-).  I tried,
> and succeeded, to run Xwindows, but I forgot that I needed some sort 
> of interface to it, ie. Xterm, Open Look, etc.  After TURNING OFF THE
> POWER and going through a palm sweating fsck on reboot, I read the manual
> a little and found that we have virtual terminals in Amiga Unix.  If you
> hit left-alternate-F1_through_F8, you can have eight (or ten, depending
> on how you configure it) virtual terminals into Amiga Unix.  When I locked
> up the one virtual terminal by trying to run X, all I should of done was
> log in under another virtual terminal (left-alt-F2) and kill the task.
> Live and learn.
> 
> 	Shortly after this, I found (by reading the manual) a script called
> oladduser which added all the stuff to my home directory and set up paths
> to allow me to run Open Look.  I got Open Look up and spent the rest of
> the day, trying to get it up in more than one bit-plane.  I was not
> successful.  (If anyone knows what I need to do please mail me!)  A couple 
> of decent tech/unix guys came in and we all played with the machine some 
> more.  I asked them about my problems with X and they said, "right" :-).  
> 
> 	We found a neat thing in SysVR.4 where when doing a 'ls -al' it now
> shows links in the format of file -> file.  (file [is linked to] file).
> There are a large number of man pages included in the installation, a
> variety of games including nethack and adventure in /usr/games, amiga
> specific files in /usr/amiga, troff, gcc and cc.  The default $PATH
> doesn't seem to include the users current directory, which is interesting.
> (I think it has to do with /etc/profile and /usr/bin/ksh.  ie. In /etc/
> profile it says something like if shell is rsh or csh, do this, it doesn't
> do it if shell is ksh.  Anyway I haven't gotten around to checking that
> out).  I compiled hello.c with gcc and cc.  A customer came in and we
> stuck a #pragma in to see if gcc would try and invoke nethack or something,
> it didn't appear to.  Another customer found a man page for nawk (new Awk) 
> but couldn't find the program itself.  There is a spreadsheet included in
> the distribution.  News software is included in the distribution, I didn't 
> check to see what other communications software was included... kermit, 
> umodem, etc.
> 
> 	We played around with tty monitors and servers and got a login prompt
> out to a 2500 running vt100.  My UnixPC, that's on the net, is all the way
> on the other side of the store and I haven't gotten up on it yet.  /etc/
> inittab has entries for the built in serial port and the A2232 multiple
> serial port card.  The built in serial port is referred to as /dev/term/ser.
> /etc/inittab also has entries for all of the virtual screens calling a
> program called /usr/amiga/bin/getscr as the "getty".
> 
> 	All this time I hadn't seen a single color other than the standard
> console screen of 640x200xblackxgold, the F2 - F8 Screens of varying 
> resolutions and colors (ie. F5 is 640x400xblackxwhite) and the Open Look
> screen of 640x400xblackxwhite.  A half hour after the store closed last
> night I ran it... /usr/amiga/bin/fractal.  Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! It is
> an Amiga. :-)
> 
> 	There is a device called /dev/amiga that let's the developer access
> the Amiga's Hardware, I think.. the manual warns about it's usage however.
> 
> 	Anyway, I hope this serves to whet ya'lls collective appetites.  Any
> questions/problems I can help with, please mail me.  If anyone would like,
> I can post files like /etc/inittab, directories, etc.
> -- 
> John Sobernheim   ...boulder!tcr!news || news@tcr.UUCP
> The Computer Room ...CIS 76625,1210 
> Denver, Colorado  ...But moma, that's where the fun is! (Manfred Man)

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