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From: winston@fjcnet.GOV (Winston M. Llamas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: 386's, TT's, a machine I want
Summary: Unix availability
Message-ID: <215@fjcp60.GOV>
Date: 29 Oct 89 02:16:55 GMT
References: <212@fjcp60.GOV> <211@fjcp60.GOV> <788@carroll1.UUCP> <13067@s.ms.uky.edu>
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In article <13067@s.ms.uky.edu>, phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti) writes:
>...
>      No. Amiga hasn't given a shipping date for the US. They have repeatedly
> said that they are working on it and they have repeatedly implied that it
> will NOT be out in the US until the Amiga 3000 ships. When is that? They
> refuse to say, since this is a ground-up, all 32-bit project - not at all
> the same as just dropping a 68030 into an Amiga 2000 or 2500.
>
I stand corrected, as far as Commodore promising Unix for years now.  It's
too bad every Amiga magazine has to talk about it for years now, but that
rumors and announcements are not synonymous.

While it's nice to see Atari and Commodore making Unix available on their
32 bit machines, I think it's equally important that these guys are able
to support their products in earnest.  Considering how long it has taken
Atari, for example, to make an OS upgrade available to its users, I'm not
sure that their version of Unix will be that much better supported. 

- Winston M. Llamas