Amiga development (was: uVAX II Memory Board)

From: Mark <mark_k_at_iname.com>
Date: Fri Feb 9 14:40:53 2001

Hi,

On 04 Feb 01 Iggy Drougge wrote:
> Bill Pechter skrev:
>
> >A friend of mine worked on the port of AT&T SVR4 to the Amiga.
> >It sold (I think) at the University of Virginia as the official student
> >workstation of the Engineering School.
>
> >I've never used an Amiga, but I'd love to get my hands on one of those
> >Amigas with Unix on it.
>
> I'd love to get my hands on AMIX, Amiga SVR4, but it was only distributed on
> tape, AFAIK, and the only time I've seen it was on eBay at a rather
> exaggerated price, IIRC.

Of course it's possible to copy the files from the distribution tape to a more
reliable medium. I did this, I think they totalled 70MB or so when
compressed.

On that subject: Since I have no way to run AMIX, I have no way of knowing
whether the backup technique I used -- simply copying all 19 or so files from
the tape to disk using a tape handler on the Amiga -- worked successfully.
Does anyone on the list have the capability to install and use AMIX from
tape? I could upload the files, then perhaps they could check whether a fresh
tape can be built from them.


To actually install Amiga UNIX requires a Commodore A2091 or A3000 SCSI
controller. Apparently someone made patches to allow AMIX to be used with GVP
controllers, but I have never seen them. (I would really like to get hold of
that, since maybe it will be possible to install AMIX on my A2000 then. But
you probably have to install AMIX before being able to incorporate the
patches...)


-- Mark
Received on Fri Feb 09 2001 - 14:40:53 GMT