Amiga Unix (was: Amiga development)

From: Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
Date: Tue Feb 6 17:35:48 2001

Bill Pechter skrev:

>> Will Jennings skrev:
>>
>> >Is it a definite that AMIX would be on tape? I seem to remember seeing it
>> >at a local Commodore/Amiga place, thought it was foppies though.. If
>> >anyone cares, I can go look.. I'm sure it would still be there, as the guy
>> >who runs it actually appreciates history and won't sell anything he has
>> >only one of... But he does make copies hehe
>>
>> Please do look.
>> BTW, what is AT&T's stance on SVR4? I doubt they treat it as "abandonware",
>> though I suppose legacy UNIX customers would be more fickle than IBM or DEC
>> users could afford to be.

>The folks who OWN the rights to SVR4 is SCO -- and soon will be
>Caldera. Perhaps they might be able to do something nice like SCO did
>to the early pre SysV stuff.

Is Caldera's entire business philosophy buying old, dilapidated software and
releasing it for free?

>I think, because the stuff only runs on Amiga you'd need whoever has the
>Commodore rights to AMIX as well as SCO/Caldera to allow it to be copied
>or put on the web.

BTW, Atari had an SVR4 port, too, around the same time, running on the TT030.
What is the mounty on the Atari version?

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