Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!lobster!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: A3000UX - Born to run UNIX SVR4 Message-ID: <1991Feb12.211508.19628@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 12 Feb 91 21:15:08 GMT References: <32530@auc.UUCP> <1991Feb10.010110.11187@sugar.hackercorp.com> <91042.123006UH2@psuvm.psu.edu> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 25 In article <91042.123006UH2@psuvm.psu.edu> UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer) writes: > 3) The organization making the decision already has a committment > to other Amiga hardware and software. That's a good reason, but that market isn't going to do enough for Commodore to be worth it. Better they'd spent the time improving AmigaOS (device independent graphics, anyone?). > 4) The organization requires ATT Unix, no substitutions allowed Possible, but this seems an even smaller market than #3. > 5) X and Open Look are already heavily used in the organizations > environment. Then they've probably got a lot of Suns and will be buying Sparcstations instead. I can see reasons for Amiga UNIX, and it looks like a good UNIX, but I'm just not sure it is ever going to do any good. And the NeXT is the *weakest* of the low-end workstation competition... -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .