2500UX shown in D.C.
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Amiga 2500UX Shown at Uniforum in Washington, D.C.! I was at the Unix
specific show Uniforum this week in D.C. and was surprised to see Commodore
showing off the 2500UX. Commodore did not have a booth there, but had its
presence there in a booth promoting UNIX. The 2500UX was sporting the Open
Look interface, the graphical user interface supported by AT&T and Sun
Microsystems (Open Look is also available on Sun's Sparcstation and AT&T
systems). The show configuration consisted of a 68030 cpu board with 4 MB
RAM, 100 MB hard disk, ethernet card, 150 MB internal tape backup, and a
Moniterm hi-res monochrome monitor. It was also running a few X-windows
applications. The Commodore spokesman there did not comment on release
dates for the machine. He did mention that there will be an upgrade option
available to current Amiga 2000 owners.
[rumor mode] An Amiga 2000 _plus_ an Amiga 1000 will be traded for an Amiga
UX?
Do you remember what the X-Windows applications it was running were?
There was a program called X-eyes, where there were two eyes in a window
looking at the on-screen arrow, and moved when the arrow moved. The other
program was an analog clock program.
I've heard rumors that C/A is considering dropping the AMIX name, and
intends to market its UNIX as (surprise) UNIX, System V, version 4.
That's an inspired bit of conventionalism on Commodore's part.
Jeff,
Not likely since the word UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T.
Don
Ahh, but hasn't C/A licensed UNIX from AT&T? The rumor was that Amix
had met AT&T's requirements for use of the name. It had something to do
with attaining complete compatability, etc. In any case, its a rumor, and
I thought that someone here would have some real information.
Jeff,
Yes, CBM is licensed…but to the best of my knowledge, no one
except AT&T (or now UNIX International) can call their operating sytem
"UNIX" although they can say that it is fully compliant with UNIX SVR4.
Just like now…no one but AT&T calls their OS "UNIX", they use a
variant of the name such as XENIX, XNIU, Ultrix, AIX, etc.
Don
Xenix is not Unix but a clone.
Ben
You can use someone else's trademark if you a) get their permission
[perhaps through compensation]; and b) correctly identify it as their mark.
Ray Lewis
Ray,
Sure…you could. But how many folks do?
For example, how many other cola's are called "Coke", or how many
other operating systems are called "PC-DOS" or computer manufacturers are
called "IBM", etc.
UNIX is both the name of an operating system, and the name of the
version of that operating system sold by AT&T.
To the best of my knowledge, AT&T has never allowed any other
company to use the word "UNIX" as the name of their product; althought,
they have allowed others to say their operating system is UNIX SVRx
compliant or compatible. They have also allowed the use of the word "UNIX"
to describe another's operating system such as "Ultrix is DEC's version of
the UNIX Operating System" (with the approprite acknowledgement that UNIX
is a trademark of AT&T).
AT&T has worked very hard trying to keep UNIX a trademark rather
than let it become a "public" word such as what happened with "Asprin"
Don