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From: jer@stbimbo.UUCP (John Ramspott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AMIX and the A2500/A3000
Keywords: AMIX unix Amiga
Message-ID: <149@stbimbo.UUCP>
Date: 21 Sep 90 19:28:17 GMT
References: <685@troi.dbaccess.com>
Reply-To: jer@stbimbo.UUCP (John Ramspott)
Organization: Sales Technologies Inc.  Atlanta, Ga.
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In article <685@troi.dbaccess.com> peter@dbaccess.com (Peter A. Castro) writes:
>Hello All,
>  I just heard a nasty rumor from a "reliable" source.  This "reliable" source
>  is a Tech at the Local Amiga shop and has been pretty good about up comming
>  Amiga info.  I hope this rumor is false.  The rumor is this:
>      AMIX (Unix for the Amiga) is not going to be comming out.
>  According to the Tech, Commodore is not going to release AMIX for the Amiga,
>  but will come out with another machine, in about a year from now, that will
>  run Unix SysVr4.  Price?  Unknown.

This kind of rumor mongoring is contemptible, and is borderline on being
slander in that it really can damage a product just at it is coming out. The
reason your dealer friend said this is that his shop probably couldn't
qualify for a Unix machine dealership because you need to have a sales rep
that is competent for UNIX. I am most likely going to be a UNIX rep for my
local dealer. I have been a UNIX developer for three years, and an X Windows
developer the past year. Commodore has begun the process of determining
what dealers will carry the UNIX product, with an emphasis on those dealers
who cater to the educatoinal market.

A member of my local Amiga User group recently received an evaluation unit
of an Amiga 3000 with the UNIX, complete with tape drive and X windows. He
will be presenting the results of his study of it at the next meeting. The
documentation for the product is a nice, finished-looking manual (no rough
Xeroxes). The BEST PART IS (drum roll): At the October meeting of our
group here in Atlanta, Commodore themselves will send technical and marketing
folks to the meeting to answer technical questions, as well as package and
pricing information. In other words, they expect to know this kind of info
by the first Tuesday of October.

And please, let's not forget that Virginia Tech already has a contract to
supply all incoming CS freshmen with A3000 running UNIX.

While the product so far seems very impressive, and works with the Lowell
8-bit MEGAPIXEL (1024 x 1024) non-interlaced graphics card, as well as the
standard 1950 monitor, it is in a young and fragile (marketing wise) state.
Be patient, because results are coming soon. While the Commodore of the past
has been known to disgust me, the new crew are working hard and doing well.
People like Copperman and Diamond are making great strides, but these kinds
of irresponsible postings get on my nerves. Let us all just wait for the
official word, OKAY!!!!!!  UNIX is a very complicated product.

--John E. Ramspott