Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!shadooby!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!ukma!david From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Unix System V Message-ID: <13244@s.ms.uky.edu> Date: 15 Nov 89 00:59:43 GMT References: <636@crash.cts.com> Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 40 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 <- ska: David le casse\*' {rutgers,uunet}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <- <- New official address: attmail!sparsdev!dsh@attunix.att.com