Greg & Rachel Olson wrote:
Actually, there are still currently being made, 10baseT network cards for the Amiga range. Its Zorro II autoconfig expansion bus was way ahead of its time-Amigans could laugh haughtily at their jumper setting, ISA slot wrangling PeeCee friends-the Amiga's peripherals just worked. :-) Also, the Amiga 3000 and 4000 computers had a faster version, ZorroIII, which used the same socket and accepted ZorroII cards. Differentiating it from the four thousand different PDS slot implementations in Mac land ;-)> Care to add an Amiga 4000 to the collection? We've got one (complete system,Most likely not and one would not be available. The amiga was originally based around a 7.14Hz processor to accommodate video applications (ever hear of the VideoToaster, it started the video revolution in computers). The 4000 is a Motorolla 68040 at 40Mhz. You could get an EMPLANT card that had scsi and ROM emulation to emulate any pre-PPC macintosh. Its OS is more *nix based than windows or mac preX, so if you are familiar with *nix or osX, then go for it!
software, monitor, printer, etc.) and we need the space.
Cheers, Monica
Does it have an RJ45 connector?
Greg
You think you're hard, stickin' with the Mac all these years? Try sticking with a platform that hasn't had an effective company making it since 1994! Due to the creativity and talent of the Amiga scene there are almost modern web browsers, some excellent TCP/IP stacks, and a USB stack that gives a run for the money to any USB stack out there, even Apple's, and it was made essentially by one guy, Chris Hodges. Nubus Macs can't do USB but ZorroII Amiga 2000s from 1987 can. Real Amiga hardware users are, at this point, probably a little insane ;-) But its amazing how the 'little computer that could' has managed to hang on to its cult following for so long..
And finally, the Amiga's OS has nothing whatsoever to do with *nix. Carl Sassenrath and RJ Mical, among others, developed the Amiga's executive kernel and Workbench GUI from scratch to go with Jay Miner's finest hour in terms of hardware design. In 1985 the Amiga had a true, 32 bit pre-emptive multitasking operating system with 4096 colors, four 8bit sound channels and a gracefully integrated GUI/command line environment. Apple thought Amiga would slay them, but Commodore's management effeciently kept that from happening :-(( Just imagine if Jobs had left in 1989 or so and Scully et. al. had been running the show ever since with Jobs never coming back..
OK, Amiga rant over :-)
Bolton
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