Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!njin!princeton!twg.com!david From: david@twg.com (David S. Herron) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: What about Unix? Keywords: Amiga 3000 Unix Message-ID: <7612@gollum.twg.com> Date: 17 Jul 90 05:52:47 GMT References: <27021@athertn.Atherton.COM> Reply-To: david@twg.com (David S. Herron) Organization: The Wollongong Group, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 43 In article <27021@athertn.Atherton.COM> paul@athertn.Atherton.COM (Paul Sander) writes: >- Source licensed from AT&T port of System V Release 4 (that is, Commodore > has a source license and is doing right, but customers get binaries only) Yes, just like any Unix vendor the only thing they sell is the binaries. >- Available in September er.. possibly. A lot depends on AT&T's schedule as well, since nobody is allowed to deliver SysVr4 until AT&T says so. >- Not available this year, and will require a new machine Nope on both. Assumably AT&T will give the go this year. In any case the hardware required is a 68030 based system (includes an MMU already..) >- Has been in beta test for a long time Yes, SysVr4 has been in beta for a looong time. It's floating around parts of this company (imagine that ;-)) but since I don't know how much I can say about that I'll stop here. Commodore has been demonstrating it at trade shows for a long time, last fall at Unix Expo in New York they had A2000's with SysVr3.2 & Open Look on 'em for instance. What the people said back then was they had a well-running r3.2 system but that they wanted to wait for r4.0, since it was "so close". My understanding now is that C= will be one of the very first shippers of r4.0 as soon as the `go' is given. >- Some people talk about it in the present tense It's not present tense enough that they're selling it. RSN, RSN :-). -- <- David Herron, an MMDF weenie, <- Formerly: David Herron -- NonResident E-Mail Hack <- <- Sign me up for one "I survived Jaka's Story" T-shirt!