#One of the new Amigas?
I just captured the following message off a local bbs:
I was down in New York for the UnixExpo and in one of the workstation demo
areas I came across a unexpected sight…..an Amiga 2500 with a 68030
board, ethernet board, new fat agnes and ECS chip set running. .wait for
it. .AT&T System V release 4 in an Xwindow environment with a separate
MS-DOS window (via a 286 board). Now 90% of the vendors don't have a
working version of the new AT&T Unix OS so this was a major surprise, not
only that but Commodore is a VAR member and has been for some time.
The only thing missing was the transputer which I was told was onboard but
didn't YET work under the Unix OS (1st quarter 90 for a platform for the
transputer). Anyways they has 2 Amigas connected via ethernet, one as the
Xwindow (they were using Xopen or Motif, I can't remember which, or is
that Open Look…boy I'm pooped from the trip) Client and the other as the
Server. The word from the company was that they couldn't get the A3000
there in time and went with the less powerfull model but that they were
going to attack the Unix workstation market in a big way. Hell I wish them
luck but from what I saw they may not need it!
Interesting news eh? Maybe this explains some of the delays behind the
release of the Unix system in North America? I hope they have this system
at Comdex so I can check it out when I'm there next week.