clennox@lynx.northeastern.edu (10/27/89)
I heard that Unix System V is available for the Amiga. Does anyone out there know what kind of hardware I need to run it, and roughly how much it would cost me? Thanks, Craig.
jeffw@pro-graphics.cts.com (Jeff Waltzer) (11/01/89)
In-Reply-To: message from clennox@lynx.northeastern.edu I hear that there are Commodore trying to port UNIX to the AMIGA. From what I hear there should be somethin soon, but I don't know much more. Does anybody know which AMIGAs it will work on? UUCP: crash!pro-graphics!jeffw DDN: crash!pro-graphics!jeffw@nosc.mil INET: crash!jeffw@pro-graphics.cts.com
ry@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (ryerson.schwark) (11/03/89)
In article <636@crash.cts.com> jeffw@pro-graphics.cts.com (Jeff Waltzer) writes: >I hear that there are Commodore trying to port UNIX to the AMIGA. Commodore was at the UNIX International Booth at UNIX EXPO this week demoing UNIX System V Release 4.0 on a 2500. Ry Schwark
johnl@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (John Lindwall) (11/04/89)
In article <2712@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> ry@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (ryerson.schwark,sf,) writes: >Commodore was at the UNIX International Booth at UNIX EXPO this week >demoing UNIX System V Release 4.0 on a 2500. Whoah! Reality check here! Did you really mean _Release 4.0_ ? 4? Four? F-O-U-R? Pardon my incredulous look, but this would be too cool. Did you see the system running ? Are there any surprising details to note? Folks in the Atari group (while lamenting vaporware products from Atari) have been implying that Unix on the Amiga is a vaporware product. Looks like we are getting very close to reality with Amiga Unix. Very exciting! Note: I do not share the opinion that Amix has been a vaporware product. IMHO Commodore has done a great job of restricting product announcements to items which were available in a reasonable time frame. Great job, guys! -- John Lindwall | "Not my employer opinions; mine" johnl@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM | a man, a plan, a beer, reeban alpa nama ----------------------------------+-------------------------------------------- Amiga PenPal V1.1 for sale: $80. All original disks, manual, box. Registration.
limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) (11/04/89)
[warning: VERY silly message follows] In article <2712@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> ry@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (ryerson.schwark) writes: > In article <636@crash.cts.com> jeffw@pro-graphics.cts.com (Jeff Waltzer) writes: > >I hear that there are Commodore trying to port UNIX to the AMIGA. > > Commodore was at the UNIX International Booth at UNIX EXPO this week > demoing UNIX System V Release 4.0 on a 2500. > > Ry Schwark How does Commodore-Amiga expect to keep the Amiga "the best kept secret in the computer industry" if they do things like this? Ugh! :-) -Tom -- Tom Limoncelli -- limonce@pilot.njin.net Standard Disclaimer CM 1060 -- tlimonce@drunivac.bitnet P O Box 802 -- ...!rutgers!njin!drew!tlimonce Madison, NJ 07940 -- 201-408-5389 "I do not like green eggs and spam, I do not like them, Sam I am!"
chip@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (Chip Christ) (11/04/89)
In article <137@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> johnl@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (John Lindwall) writes: >Whoah! Reality check here! Did you really mean _Release 4.0_ ? Yep! That's what I was told, too. It's not ready for release, only because CBM wants to be sure that the SVR4 base is really stable, they claim. According to the guy with whom I spoke, CBM was this far (thumb & index finger held about 1/4 inch apart ;-) from releasing an SVR3 based Amix when 4.0 became available to vendors, so they decided to go with it. BTW, they also had Amix running on a 2000, with an '020 board, but I'm not sure now if that, too, was SVR4, or the previous version. Chip
space@ncc1701.UUCP (Lars Soltau) (11/09/89)
In article <2712@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> ry@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (ryerson.schwark) writes: >In article <636@crash.cts.com> jeffw@pro-graphics.cts.com (Jeff Waltzer) writes: >>I hear that there are Commodore trying to port UNIX to the AMIGA. > >Commodore was at the UNIX International Booth at UNIX EXPO this week >demoing UNIX System V Release 4.0 on a 2500. Yeah, but that doesn't mean they're going to be able to actually sell it in the next ten years. Remember, it's Commodore we're talking about! -- Lars Soltau bang: ...uunet!unido!nadia!ncc1701!space BIX: --no bucks-- smart: ncc1701!space@nadia.UUCP
david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) (11/15/89)
In article <636@crash.cts.com> jeffw@pro-graphics.cts.com (Jeff Waltzer) writes: >I hear that there are Commodore trying to port UNIX to the AMIGA. From what I >hear there should be somethin soon, but I don't know much more. Does anybody >know which AMIGAs it will work on? Well, I don't know where this guy has been hiding since the Amix port has been a hot topic in a number of areas ... anyway, I want to report a "sighting". At Unix Expo held recently in NYC I was wandering around, glanced at one of the displays and there was a couple of Amiga's there. They had 3 Amiga 2000's all told (woulda been more impressive to have an A500 there as well) at the show two in the X portion of the Unix International booth and the other in, I think, a "generic" portion of the booth. The machines were all A2500UX's with 5 megs of memory and the big Moniterm screens. At least one of the machines was running SysV *release* *4* and another was running r3.2. (r4 was announced the first day of the show). The two in the X section was running X under Unix (The last I heard about a window manager for Amix was they were going to roll their own, I'm glad they got talked out of that) along with the Motif (er.. right name? The AT&T product is the one I mean) bells and whistles (er, toolkit). Oh yeah, at least one of the machines had a tape drive in it which connected to SCSI somewhere. (cartridge tape) I didn't ask about availability. The downside of all this is that their fonts were "screwed up" and the screen was missing about half the bells and whistles that were supposed to be there. -- <- David Herron; an MMDF guy <david@ms.uky.edu> <- ska: David le casse\*' {rutgers,uunet}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <- <- New official address: attmail!sparsdev!dsh@attunix.att.com
ag@amix.commodore.com (Keith Gabryelski) (11/16/89)
In article <13244@s.ms.uky.edu> david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) writes: >The two in the X section was running X under Unix (The last I >heard about a window manager for Amix was they were going to roll >their own, I'm glad they got talked out of that) along with the >Motif (er.. right name? The AT&T product is the one I mean) bells >and whistles (er, toolkit). Open Look is the AT&T Window Manager. Motif is OSF. Commodore should have both available. >The downside of all this is that their fonts were "screwed up" and >the screen was missing about half the bells and whistles that were >supposed to be there. This font thing was taken care of the first day of the show. As far as I know all the 'bells and whistles' were working the second day of the show. Pax, Keith -- ag@amix.commodore.com Keith Gabryelski ...!cbmvax!amix!ag