Commodore UNIX, some questions

[Matt_H]

As of v2.6.0 (released this week), WinUAE has full MMU support, so Amix, etc., should all work now!

As to copyright, yes, it still technically is, but the current owner probably doesn't even realize they're the owner, and I doubt they would care if they did. And they'd need an army of lawyers to prove it. Besides, the source code is lost. Amix is a historical artifact, of interest only to historians and hobbyists like us.

[Matt_H]

Speaking of source code, does anybody have the source code to AMIX?  Whoever that enity is, can't we ask for a copy of the source code?  In 2013, I'm not sure how you could make money off of it.

The Amiga bits that olsen references (the ones that haven't been lost) are on the distribution tapes themselves, and these have been backed up/archived.

The last rumor I heard was that the source was accidentally destroyed by Gateway when they reformatted some media (HD/Tapes).

I heard that story, too, but I think it was before Gateway. Sometime during the ESCOM handover.

For that matter, who has the source code to Workbench and Kickstart?  Is it the same people?

olsen had/has it

[Matt_H]

From what I learned in my 11 years at Sun, there was an honest attempt at licensing the A3000 and AMIX as a cheap/relabelled Sun supported unix system - it was unclear (to me) why the deal never happened

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TomUK

Dave Haynie talks about the situation in the Deathbed Vigil. It was - surprise - Commodore management that botched the deal.