I never said that the magazine (AMIGA WORLD) was accurate - I just quoted a box-out in the front section!
In 1991 Unix was shown on A3000s:
At Dallas's Uniforum Show (Jan 22-24), with over 20,000 attendees and almost 400 exhibitors . . . . .
' Several networked Amigas ran Unix with X-Windows and Sun Microsystems' Open Look interface.
Two Amigas were fitted with the Universaty of Lowell graphics board-- recently dubbed the Commodore A2410 card -- which works with either AmigaDOS or Unix. Because it must go through MMU under Unix, the card is said to run 14 times faster on AmigaDOS, which uses DMA.
The lower-priced A3000UX model ($4999), with its 1MB of chip memory, 4MB of fast memory, and 100MB hard disk, requires the A2410 card for color. It is intended for educational or home use. The professional model ($6999) comes with 1MB of chip RAM, 8MB of fast RAM, a 200MB hard disk, and an Ethernet networking card. Both also promise strong support. Purchasers will be able to call Commodore Toll-free, reaching a trained technician who will try to work out any problems ... failing that, an engineer will take the case .... if not successful, Commodore will dispatch a technician to make on-site repairs. '
(( ALL that EXPENSIVE SUPPORT? Must be the reason that Unix was dropped?? ))
Amiga Unix Ticking at Tech
' BLACKSBERG, VIRGINIA-
Students wishing to enter Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University notonly need to be bright, they also need to buy a computer. For many disciplines, an IBM or a Mac is the "in" machine. But for computer-science aces, an Amiga 3000 is required. The school is pioneering not just with Amigas, but also with AT&T's Unix version V.4 an operating system so new it isn't even finished.
Virginia Tech made the startling leap from Macintosh (which had been the computer-science mainstay since 1985) after a rigorous assesment process. A task force contacted 17 computer vendors and pressed them to meet a longlist of specifications. Among other requirements, the system softwae had to run at a minimum speed of one MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second), leave 1MB of RAM available after loading the system software, be expandable to 4MB, and have a bitmap resolution of 640x480. Desirable options included a floating-point coprocessor, expandability to 8MB of RAM, a SCSI port, sound generation, a mouse, and greater than one MIPS performance. The main software requirement was the ability to run a standard version of Unix. Finally, it had to be affordable.
Many vendors fell short on some of those points. Commodore, however, met or exceeded all criteria, beating out Sun, Digital, NeXT, and Apple. '
(( SO - I wonder if Commodore ACTUALLY did deliver on that back then? ))
