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FA: System V Release 4.0 Beta 3J Unix (only 2 known to exist)
« on: September 19, 2008, 04:31:01 AM »
L@@K

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too rare is bloody rare
« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2008, 05:00:22 AM »
I have a feeling that it's only going to get one bid if any.  :cry:
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Re: too rare is bloody rare
« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2008, 06:09:50 AM »
I placed a bid and I have a system that can run and duplicate the tape. The problem is I might just be bidding on a fancy label. The tape may very well not even be readable any longer. Lets hope either Failure can duplicate his or the high bidder can. I will duplicate it and submit it to Amigaunix if I win it.
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Re: too rare is bloody rare
« Reply #3 on: September 19, 2008, 11:54:42 AM »
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I placed a bid and I have a system that can run and duplicate the tape. The problem is I might just be bidding on a fancy label. The tape may very well not even be readable any longer. Lets hope either Failure can duplicate his or the high bidder can. I will duplicate it and submit it to Amigaunix if I win it.


Amigaunix got one of the 2 tapes. As far as I can tell these tapes were stored ina good environment.
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Re: too rare is bloody rare
« Reply #4 on: September 19, 2008, 01:10:38 PM »
It's going to Tahoe which is probably a good thing.  He's got more Commodore UX stuff and in better condition, plus a goal of preserving it all - which for something as unusual as this find is highly important.

As far as 3J is concerned, v1.1 was itself pretty buggy.  The main interest for me would be, hey, it's a beta...maaaaaybe there's some more stuff for debugging, some more source code, maybe even some C= bug submission tool?  I bet there's at least a few interesting goodies in there.

I'd love to hook up with a 2.1 tape and "legit" patch disk.  Sure I've got homegrown tapes but it would be oh so perfect next to my copy of the Unix-Haters Handbook.  :-)

Best of luck with the auction, and to the bidders :-D
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Re: FA: System V Release 4.0 Beta 3J Unix (only 2 known to exist)
« Reply #5 on: September 19, 2008, 07:47:23 PM »
I still have a 1.1 tape, which I may or may not keep. Will Amiga Unix on a non-ECS computer, like an A1200?
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Re: FA: System V Release 4.0 Beta 3J Unix (only 2 known to exist)
« Reply #6 on: September 19, 2008, 08:18:50 PM »
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I still have a 1.1 tape, which I may or may not keep. Will Amiga Unix on a non-ECS computer, like an A1200?


Jim,

Amix was very limited in compatibility.  As you may know, it was designed for an ECS '030 machine (A2500, A3000) only.  To the best of my memory, it will not run on anything other than an '030.  There were libraries written to run with various video cards but I'm not sure it is capable of running under AGA.

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Re: FA: System V Release 4.0 Beta 3J Unix (only 2 known to exist)
« Reply #7 on: September 19, 2008, 11:28:30 PM »
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Jim,

Amix was very limited in compatibility.  As you may know, it was designed for an ECS '030 machine (A2500, A3000) only.  To the best of my memory, it will not run on anything other than an '030.  There were libraries written to run with various video cards but I'm not sure it is capable of running under AGA.

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I figured, but thought I would ask. I currently have a 030 A1200, but obviously it is AGA.

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Re: FA: System V Release 4.0 Beta 3J Unix (only 2 known to exist)
« Reply #8 on: September 20, 2008, 02:31:15 AM »
Since it's usually either SetPatch or hardware banging that activates the AGA features, my guess would be that AMIX might run on a 1200/030. A 2091 SCSI board would obviously be required. Don't know if anyone's tested this before...
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Re: FA: System V Release 4.0 Beta 3J Unix (only 2 known to exist)
« Reply #9 on: September 20, 2008, 02:38:57 AM »
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Since it's usually either SetPatch or hardware banging that activates the AGA features, my guess would be that AMIX might run on a 1200/030. A 2091 SCSI board would obviously be required. Don't know if anyone's tested this before...


hmm, why a 2091? With zoro autoconfig would a driver really be needed? For s***s and giggle I may give it a shot when I get a Dataflyer 1200 scsi next week.
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Re: FA: System V Release 4.0 Beta 3J Unix (only 2 known to exist)
« Reply #10 on: September 20, 2008, 04:50:04 AM »
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Since it's usually either SetPatch or hardware banging that activates the AGA features, my guess would be that AMIX might run on a 1200/030. A 2091 SCSI board would obviously be required. Don't know if anyone's tested this before...


hmm, why a 2091? With zoro autoconfig would a driver really be needed? For s***s and giggle I may give it a shot when I get a Dataflyer 1200 scsi next week.


At the time Amix was released, the A2091 was the only SCSI board supported via Amix libraries.  Later SCSI boards may not be fully A2091 compliant and hence Amix may not recognize them.  Everything in Amix is library driven.

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Re: too rare is bloody rare
« Reply #11 on: September 20, 2008, 08:00:31 AM »
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I have a feeling that it's only going to get one bid if any.  :cry:


So far it has 6 bids from 4 different bidders, and I haven't even bid yet.  :lol:
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Re: too rare is bloody rare
« Reply #12 on: September 20, 2008, 11:37:03 AM »
About Amix and general Amiga history, I've two questions. I hope that Amiga specialists could answer :

- When was launched the first A2500UX ? Before, after or in the same time of the A3000UX ?

- What was the distribution/name of the Unix in the A2500UX ?
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Re: too rare is bloody rare
« Reply #13 on: September 21, 2008, 02:16:54 PM »
me is wrong

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Re: too rare is bloody rare
« Reply #14 on: January 27, 2009, 07:14:19 PM »
Hi!

Does anyone know what happened with the tape containing AMIX Beta 3J? Was it readable? Does a .tar.gz dump exist? http://amigaunix.com does not mention anything about the Beta 3J version. :-(

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