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"Aminga" - I can't believe this
« on: February 04, 2004, 10:31:12 PM »
Read about the world famous 'Aminga':
http://www.planetxoops.com/modules/mylinks/

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This site is dedicated to the Aminga, a Unix-based animation computer that was built by Commodore. These computers were once the world’s best for games and graphics when the PC was still in the 286 / 386 days and couldn’t handle dynamic graphics.
:roll:

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Re: "Aminga" - I can't believe this
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2004, 10:34:23 PM »
:lol:

I was going to post this.... but then I couldn't be bothered. ;-)

Edit: Is this what people mean when they say, "you is aminga"?
 

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Re: "Aminga" - I can't believe this
« Reply #2 on: February 05, 2004, 01:51:44 AM »
 :lol:

Just shows once again that anyone can get published on the web.  Can't spell or use a spell checker.    :-D

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Re: "Aminga" - I can't believe this
« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2004, 12:20:09 PM »
Where can I buy an Aminga? Any resources?  :-D

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Re: "Aminga" - I can't believe this
« Reply #4 on: February 12, 2004, 12:23:45 PM »
Interesting. Where are the forums and news items for this mysterious Aminga UNIX system, then? I can only see Amiga stuff here. I wonder why Commodore never advertised this "Aminga" :lol:
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Re: "Aminga" - I can't believe this
« Reply #5 on: February 12, 2004, 12:24:13 PM »
Unix based? Eeeeek! :shocked: Maybe the first versions of AmigaOS were developed on a Sun system, but they got rid of unix influence damn quick.

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These computers were once the world's best for games and graphics when the PC was still in the 286 / 386 days and couldn't handle dynamic graphics.


At least that's right. :P
 

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Re: "Aminga" - I can't believe this
« Reply #6 on: February 12, 2004, 12:24:42 PM »
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that_punk_guy wrote:

Edit: Is this what people mean when they say, "you is aminga"?


:lol:

I think that should have been enclosed in tags!
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Re: "Aminga" - I can't believe this
« Reply #7 on: February 12, 2004, 12:28:11 PM »
I don't know what an Aminga is, but havn't you ever heard of the A3000UX? :-P
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Re: "Aminga" - I can't believe this
« Reply #8 on: February 12, 2004, 01:36:21 PM »
Maybe it's the one they released in china. :D
 

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Re: "Aminga" - I can't believe this
« Reply #9 on: February 12, 2004, 02:56:25 PM »
I just posted corrections to it - so we'll see if thefix it.
 

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Re: "Aminga" - I can't believe this
« Reply #10 on: February 12, 2004, 03:08:52 PM »
Welcome robbhar :-)

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Re: "Aminga" - I can't believe this
« Reply #11 on: February 12, 2004, 03:41:58 PM »
AMINGA?!?!   :-o

OMG.
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Re: "Aminga" - I can't believe this
« Reply #12 on: February 12, 2004, 03:48:22 PM »
hahahaha how silly
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Re: "Aminga" - I can't believe this
« Reply #13 on: February 12, 2004, 04:48:35 PM »

Maybe that poster got a bit tangled up in the story of The CBM 900?
"Introduced CeBIT 1985
Hardware Z8001 (16bit; 23bit address bus with segment registers; early protected mode architecture [OS and user ring levels]; RISC), 512K RAM (max 2MB), 20MB HD (ST225) with reported options to 40MB or 67MB, 5.25"1.2MB disk drive (similar to the SFD 1000). Centronics and IEEE-4888 ports.
The Commodore 900 ran a modified port of Mark Williams' Coherent UNIX v0.7.3 (some 0.7.2), a prototype version, and was intended as a mainframe-class machine with multitasking, timesharing, virtual memory, multi-user capabilities -- what you would expect from a Typical Un*x Mainframe. System adminstration was accomplished through an X-Windows-like GUI on the workstation version of the 900.
Eventual Fate Scrapped prototype; project officially discontinued in favour of the newly-acquired Lorraine, later becoming the Amiga. Some models, however, were released in Europe as development systems at around US$4000 apiece (!), even though the actual computer was never publicly released. 500 units produced."
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Re: "Aminga" - I can't believe this
« Reply #14 on: February 12, 2004, 09:14:47 PM »
@vortexau

That's one cool computer :)