The Amiga UX, a unix workstation?

Thomas Elam telam at pyrps5.pyramid.com
Thu Jan 10 04:59:19 AEST 1991


In article <1991Jan9.154128.17433 at msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> punch at pleiades.cps.msu.edu (Bill Punch) writes:
>
>So I susbscribed to these groups to get a handle on this new machine
>I've saw discussed in the most recent BYTE. I've been looking for a
>"combination" machine for sometime now and been dissatisfied. By
>combination I mean a nice Mac-type GUI but also a full unix
>implementation, and the ability to use both or switch back and forth.
>The Mac AUX isn't worth mentioning and I'm not sold on the NeXT yet. So
>what can anybody say about the UX? How does it do regular Amiga stuff.
>How about unix, say compared to a Sun (slower sure, but complete, reasonable)?
>
>					>>>bill<<<
>					punch at pleiades.cps.msu.edu

I've heard that there's an announcement coming soon on Amiga UNIX.  I
think the main advantage of Amiga UNIX vis a vis AUX and NeXT is
probably that of low-cost SVR4 compatibility.  I've heard the windowing
is reasonably fast.  I don't think you'll see applications compiled for
the Amiga operating system running on it for a while (maybe never).

Mainly, I'm saying Amiga UNIX is there, it's real.  Some people are
running it.  You should probably call Commodore in West Chester,
Pennsylvania for more answers.  Be sure to ask about educational
discounts.

Tom



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