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From: etxtomp@eos.ericsson.se (Tommy Petersson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: AmigaOS/UNIX - A Suggestion
Message-ID: <1990Dec6.191222.12243@ericsson.se>
Date: 6 Dec 90 19:12:22 GMT
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In article <16325@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
-In article <7185@sugar.hackercorp.com> ssd@sugar.hackercorp.com (Scott Denham) writes:
--In article <16094@cbmvax.commodore.com>, daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
-
->> "A3000UX" is simply a marketing created A3000 UNIX bundle.  It is the same
->> A3000 you've been able to buy since June, only it comes with 8 Meg of RAM..
-
-Well, actually 9 Meg if you include Chip RAM...
-
-> I take it from your article that this rumor is in fact untrue, and that
->sooner or later current A3000 owners (sadly, I am not one!) (and A2500/30
->owners?) will be able to run Amiga UNIX as well? 
-
-Technically speaking, certainly.  Far as I know, the UNIX folks don't have
-any special "A3000UX" machine in their offices, and until last summer, they
-all had A2500/30s there (the A3000 does offer the advantage of easily having
-more than 4Meg of 32 bit RAM, important for memory hungry UNIX).  Whether C=
-will sell a stand-alone UNIX package, or only offer the A3000UX bundle, is
-of course purely a marketing decision.
-
--- 
-Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests"
-   {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh      PLINK: hazy     BIX: hazy
-		      Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...........

...and a question of honesty, since A2620's and A2630's have been sold
under the assumption that they would be able to run Commodore's Unix
when it RSN will be available, for a long time now.

Is it technically possible to run the current implementation of Unix on
an A2620 equipped Amiga 2000?

Tommy Petersson