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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: Pentad on December 20, 2013, 09:24:21 PM

Title: AMIX Rival
Post by: Pentad on December 20, 2013, 09:24:21 PM

I know many here have been interested in AMIX (Amiga Unix) back in the day.  I had a UX and TUX system at college.  It was simply amazing at the time.

I had heard that there was an Atari version for the TT030 and that Atari was also going to sell to universities much like Commodore had.

I was always curious to see how the Atari port of SVR4 turned out.  However, I could never find any information or even pictures.

I stumped on an Atari Unix site with information, pictures, and even images of Atari's unix.  I thought folks here would like to see how Atari was going to compete with AMIX.

You can see it here:
http://atariunix.com

I think Commodore with the Lowell board is a much better system than what I have see from Atari.  Of course, I don't know what the Atari unix was going to cost.

Just something cool I thought others might enjoy,
-P

Title: Re: AMIX Rival
Post by: XDelusion on December 20, 2013, 09:45:37 PM

Very interesting, and yes, thank you for sharing!

Quote from: Pentad;754814

I know many here have been interested in AMIX (Amiga Unix) back in the day.  I had a UX and TUX system at college.  It was simply amazing at the time.

I had heard that there was an Atari version for the TT030 and that Atari was also going to sell to universities much like Commodore had.

I was always curious to see how the Atari port of SVR4 turned out.  However, I could never find any information or even pictures.

I stumped on an Atari Unix site with information, pictures, and even images of Atari's unix.  I thought folks here would like to see how Atari was going to compete with AMIX.

You can see it here:
http://atariunix.com

I think Commodore with the Lowell board is a much better system than what I have see from Atari.  Of course, I don't know what the Atari unix was going to cost.

Just something cool I thought others might enjoy,
-P

Title: Re: AMIX Rival
Post by: nicholas on December 20, 2013, 10:20:06 PM

Thanks for this! :)

Title: Re: AMIX Rival
Post by: Failure on December 20, 2013, 11:46:33 PM

Really cool how similar it looks even on the console level to AMIX.  But Commodore didn't splash for a fancy boot logo unfortunately.

I see the aclock guy contacted them too :-)

Title: Re: AMIX Rival
Post by: Iggy on December 21, 2013, 01:32:00 AM

Very cool.
I have Solaris on one machine right now and have toyed with the idea of a OpenBSD system.
UNIX based OS' were very far ahead of their time.