Amiga's H2G2 entry

[HenryCase]

I just came across this article about the Amiga on the BBC website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A622540
It doesn't seem to be very well written. Why don't we discuss what needs changing and then see if we can get the changes implemented. I'll start:

"The Amiga project was originally overseen by Atari"

Amiga/HiToro started out in 1982, and while its true that Atari helped with funding early on, I think 'overseen by Atari' is stretching the truth a little.

"The AmigaOS was designed as a pre-Unix system. However fully fledged Unix style operating systems are available for the machine, including BeOS, Linux and BSD."

Surely they should mention AMIX?

[Sig999]

Or maybe they should just hit the 'del' key.

I'm sorta puzzled how it could be a 'pre-unix' system when unix was developed around 1969, and Jay Miner's vision of the Amiga sprung from his love of the (then new) 68000 - a chip which first had initial engineering samples released in 1979...

I mean Jay was ahead of his time... but not 'Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure' ahead!

[HenryCase]

Sig999 wrote:
Or maybe they should just hit the 'del' key.

Yeah, maybe you're right! :-D
I would still like to make sure the Amiga is represented well on the BBC website, so should we keep the headings and rewrite the content by scratch?

Sig999 wrote:
I'm sorta puzzled how it could be a 'pre-unix' system when unix was developed around 1969, and Jay Miner's vision of the Amiga sprung from his love of the (then new) 68000 - a chip which first had initial engineering samples released in 1979...

Good spot. Maybe they meant to say pre-Linux, but that doesn't really add anything meaningful to the article.