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From: FVEST@DUCVAX.AUBURN.EDU (Floyd Vest)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AMIX and X
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Date: 28 Sep 90 07:37:00 GMT
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Jeff Scherb - CATS <scherb@cbmvax.commodore.com> wrote:
>In article <10520@hubcap.clemson.edu> ddyer@hubcap.clemson.edu (douglas m dyer) writes:
>>Could some informed soul please post a response to the rumor of
>>AMIX being scrapped, and what possibilities of running X applications

>Commodore has an active engineering project working on a AT&T UNIX V.4
>for the Amiga.  That's not secret.  We have shown it at a number of
>industry events over the past year or more.  That does not mean that
>it will automatically become a released product, however.  Commodore
>is evaluating the market potential for Amigas running UNIX, and the
>costs of entering and competing in that market.  If and when we decide
>that releasing Amiga UNIX is a good business decision for the company,
>we will release the product.  As of yet, Commodore has not made a
>formal announcement of the availability of the product.  Showing the

Not to be a disagreeable sort, but I opened a magazine (Educom Review)
yesterday that advertised the "Unix v.4 platform" as available for the
Amiga 3000.  Sounds formally announced to me :-).  I realize advertising
lead-times and sliding dates make marketing a new product difficult, but
you make it sound like IF instead of WHEN.  This is, at this point, more of
a marketing question than a technical question anyway :-) Marketing, care
to comment about the ad?


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