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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: guest1255 on June 01, 2005, 11:01:03 AM
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How can i see is my A3000 UX or normal A3000?
Can this be seen from the mainboard or is it the shape or the software?
TIA. :)
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Wasnt it on the badge on the front?
Infact, here it is.
(http://www.amiga.org/gallery/images/1570/1_1543.jpg)
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:( :( then mine is Normal A3000,,,
Thank you for the information.
SO what is it that makes it so special?
is it fater or .. ??
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I think it was supplied with a Tape drive and Amiga UNIX. I know that the AmiNIX or whatever its called wont run on 68030 cpus or something (There is a cpu issue with the faster ones) so maybe it has a slower CPU supplied?
Not sure.
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The A3000UX was released with AT&T Unix V4, iirc. The machine was a standard A3000 68030 m/b with early roms, the aforementioned scsi tape drive and an A2410 graphics board (for the Unix display). There was also a version for the A2000 that used special boot roms on an A2630 68030 accelerator. I once had both machines, having bought them off a guy who worked at the Univ. of Lowell (where they designed the A2410).
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Cool :)
I thought the CPU was different... maybe UNIX wont run on the 060 or something ...
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I remember that it required the MMU. Perhaps it didn't run on an '040? Has anyone here ran it on an '040/060 or just the '030???
-G
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http://amix.failsure.net/tiki-index.php?page=Hardware
:-)
It will not run on 040/060, only 020/030 with MMU. At least AFAIK.
*edit* There's a guy who contacted me recently that got it installed on an A2000, so there's no special ROMs or anything necessary, again, AFAIK.
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The video card and tape drive were optional also. Besides the badge, the other difference was some came with a 3 button preggy mouse.
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I know that this question is a little off topic :)
How can i make my A3000 use 3.1 rom (softkick), where do i have to copy the roms files.
Or is it the only way to buy them (rela ones)and replace the old ones?
TIA
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You may find this topic (http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=15992) helpful. I assume that is what you were talking about anyway...
Short answer is that you pretty much need to buy the 3.1 ROMs, unless ye feel like a pirate, matey.
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I have an legall AF6 can it be used?
Its nice to have the Amiga working on a real machine :)
I will also get the rom chips soon but cant wait :)
thanks.
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glitch wrote:
I remember that it required the MMU. Perhaps it didn't run on an '040? Has anyone here ran it on an '040/060 or just the '030???
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From what I remember, it only works on an 030.
The final version was compiled for the 030, and before CBM could lay off the remainder of the team, they quit.
Development halted right there and never moved again.
But the Amiga may be the only personal computer that ever ran UNIX. (If not, then it ran the most advanced version ever released for a personal computer.)
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Various versions of SVr4 were released for x86, and BSD is pretty definitely a Unix.
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Very similar was A/UX, only for 68k Macs. I think Apple continued development for it up until around 1996/97.
http://www.applefritter.com/ui/aux/index.html has a little walkthrough. It ran on some of the 68020 to 68040 boxes from the late 80s/early 90s.
dana
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There is only one UNIX, and Commodore licensed UNIX from AT&T for the purpose of creating a version for the Amiga.
IRC, no one else had ever licenced UNIX for a personal computer.
And the Amiga version was System V.
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Santa Cruz Operation's SCO/Unix, which was previously known as M$' Xenix, was a fully licensed AT&T Unix for X86. I believe it was System III. It predates the 3000. Hell, under M$, it predated the C64.