jones@uv4.eglin.af.mil (Calvin Jones, III) (03/08/90)
"Mike (Real Amiga have keyboard garages" <mwm@raven.pa.dec.com> writes: > If you do, I suggest look at how AUX is doing, and how the PC-based > Unix systems are doing. The answer is "not very well", sales being > mostly limited to Universities that like the idea of running Mac & > Unix software on the same box, and to technogeeks who _really_ want a > Unix box in their house. That total just isn't a very big market, not > compared to what you can put in office & homes if you don't try and > sell enough hardware to run Unix. It's big enough to be worth doing, > but it won't keep the machine alive. I fear that this is changing. The DoD now requires that specifications use in the procurement of general purpose computers of all sizes call for a POSIX compliant operation system. POSIX is defined in FIPS 151, and defines a standard operating system interface and environment based on the AT&T System V Interface Definition (SVID) to support application software portability at the software source code level.
wendell@medsys.uucp (Wendell Dingus) (03/10/90)
jones@uv4.eglin.af.mil (Calvin Jones, III) writes: >"Mike (Real Amiga have keyboard garages" <mwm@raven.pa.dec.com> writes: >> If you do, I suggest look at how AUX is doing, and how the PC-based >> Unix systems are doing. The answer is "not very well", sales being >> mostly limited to Universities that like the idea of running Mac & >> Unix software on the same box, and to technogeeks who _really_ want a >> Unix box in their house. That total just isn't a very big market, not >> compared to what you can put in office & homes if you don't try and >> sell enough hardware to run Unix. It's big enough to be worth doing, >> but it won't keep the machine alive. >I fear that this is changing. The DoD now requires that specifications >use in the procurement of general purpose computers of all sizes call >for a POSIX compliant operation system. POSIX is defined in FIPS 151, >and defines a standard operating system interface and environment based >on the AT&T System V Interface Definition (SVID) to support application >software portability at the software source code level. Check out the article 'Paradoxically Posix' in the March '90 issue of Unix World. quote: "Commodore, best known as a maker of home "toy" computers, has recently attempted to enter the more serious computing with larger business systems. Its high-end Amigas have actually emerged as the machine of choice for the desktop video market - under, however, AmigaDOS. Last October, Commodore displayed an Amiga running a Posix-compliant UNIX System V.4 at UNIX Expo. Commodore systems with UNIX are not currently being shipped..." Interesting and positive article. ----- Wendell Dingus ...!uunet!medsys!wendell