lindwall@mbongo.ucsd.edu (John Lindwall) (02/27/91)
Spotted this in the Feb 91 UnixWorld, "Industry News" section: DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN "Commodore promises to make its annual new product announcement at UniForum for the Amiga workstation running AT&T System V Release 4. Product Managager Jesse Bornfreund, recently brought on board from Rabbit Software, admits, "We figured it was time to put up or shut up". The machines were in beta release last summer. One site was Virginia Polytechnic, where computer science students were allowed to run roughshod over it. Westinghouse was another site. Anxious developers who wanted to upgrade from Amiga's DOS applications paid $5000 for machines. Bornfreund reports "pilot sales" -- placement in companies for testing with potential for future volume sales - to Martin Marietta, NASA, and Rockwell. The machine will cost between $5000 and $10,000, says BornFreund. The 68030-based workstation (with a 68040-based version to come) will run SVR4 and the Motif graphical user interface." ----- "68040 version to come", OK we've assumed that... "Motif" !?!?! Is this a mistake? I assume so! -- John Lindwall lindwall@cs.ucsd.edu "Oh look at me! I'm all flooby! I'll be a son of a gun!" -- Flaming Carrot
ag@amix.commodore.com (Keith "Cheese Whiz" Gabryelski) (02/27/91)
In article <17021@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> lindwall@mbongo.ucsd.edu (John Lindwall) writes: >[...Quote from UnixWorld...]: >]The 68030-based workstation (with a 68040-based version to come) >]will run SVR4 and the Motif graphical user interface." > >"68040 version to come", OK we've assumed that... "Motif" !?!?! Is this >a mistake? I assume so! System V Release 4.0 from Commodore comes with AT&T's OLIT (AT&T's implementation of The Open Look GUI). We are looking into offering Motif as well. Pax, Keith -- "[...] a POSIX implementation that | Keith Gabryelski returns errors for practially every| Amiga Unix Software Development operation is conformant (useless, | ag@amix.commodore.com but conformant)." -- Chris Torek| ...!cbmvax!amix!ag
cy0q+@andrew.cmu.edu (Chad O. Yoshikawa) (02/28/91)
As far as the Motif part--since we decided that the UX was going to run a different GUI--I don't see any reason why they shouldn't be able to run a Motif environment on the 3000UX. I have seen an IBM RT simply xhost and allow a different machine (with the Motif window manager) to alter its home display and essentially have Motif running on his machine(although a little slower obviously) Chad
giger@cbmehq.UUCP (Thomas Giger ESCO TSG) (03/08/91)
In article <1206@amix.commodore.com> ag@amix.commodore.com (Keith "Cheese Whiz" Gabryelski) writes: >In article <17021@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> lindwall@mbongo.ucsd.edu (John Lindwall) >writes: >>[...Quote from UnixWorld...]: >>]The 68030-based workstation (with a 68040-based version to come) >>]will run SVR4 and the Motif graphical user interface." >> >>"68040 version to come", OK we've assumed that... "Motif" !?!?! Is this >>a mistake? I assume so! > >System V Release 4.0 from Commodore comes with AT&T's OLIT (AT&T's >implementation of The Open Look GUI). > >We are looking into offering Motif as well. > >Pax, Keith >-- >"[...] a POSIX implementation that | Keith Gabryelski A preliminary Motif 1.1 port done by a german developer will be shown at Hanover CeBIT show '91 (March 13-20). This is meant to demonstrate that a quick&dirty port is quite easy to do but does not indicate that we are actually going to buy or ship this particular port. -- Thomas. -- Thomas Giger, Technical Support Manager Commodore European Support & Coordination Office (ESCO) UUCP: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmehq!giger