Unix on Amiga

From: Bill Pechter <pechter_at_pechter.dyndns.org>
Date: Tue Apr 2 21:33:33 2002

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Christopher Smith <csmith_at_amdocs.com>
> Date: Wednesday, April 3, 2002 8:59 am
> Subject: RE: Computers Manufactured in 1986
>
> > ... if you can find the expansions. :)
>
> Fair bit of stuff still out (I have some strange ones in my own
> connection - for eg. a Xetec controller with an extra 2 mb ram & a
> weird hard disk connector that plugged into the A1000's expansion
> (Zorro) port - same co. used to make Centronics i/faces for VIC's &
> 64/128's)
>
>
> > As for a more common system (more common than the Intergraph, not the
> > Amiga), a UnixPC with 1 meg of ram, and maybe 60MB of disk will give
> > you access to a really decent subset of available Unix (and possibly
> > MS-DOS) software. It will also have a decent development environment,
> > given the installation of a dev kit.
>
> THe A2000UX from Commodore was fairly respecatble (though somewhat
> undersold), not sure what version of Unix it ran, have to dig up my old
> dealer brochures.
>

Real SysVRel4 I assume... a friend of mine worked on it there for the
A3000 IIRC.

They started with the Real AT&T stuff and bought the source license.

Bill
Received on Tue Apr 02 2002 - 21:33:33 BST