Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!rex!ukma!rutgers!rochester!kodak!uupsi!sunic!chalmers.se!mathrt0.math.chalmers.se!d8samol From: d8samol@dtek.chalmers.se (Olof Samuelsson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga Subject: Re: Standalone UNIX and 1.1 upgrades Message-ID: <1991May27.003537.6988@mathrt0.math.chalmers.se> Date: 27 May 91 00:35:37 GMT References: <2153@amix.commodore.com> Sender: news@mathrt0.math.chalmers.se (Evald Nyhetsson) Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden Lines: 31 In article <2153@amix.commodore.com> buck@amix.commodore.com (Richard Buck) writes: [Lots of nice stuff deleted.] >Oft-asked questions include: >2. Does Amiga UNIX work on a 2000/2500? >Yes and no. >A well-hidden secret is that it does work, but we don't like to admit that. >We're not supporting the 2000/2500 series until a hardware upgrade package >is available and Amiga UNIX 2.0 comes out. The basic upgrade (other than >having enough memory and disk space) is replacing the 2630 and Kickstart >ROMs, but more details will follow when we release the kit this summer. We >don't like it in its current configuration because it doesn't match the >way AmigaDOS and Amiga UNIX live together (and boot) on the 3000 series. >While it works and has worked all along, we want to wait until the 2000 >series UNIX can be brought into sync with the 3000 series UNIX. This >upgrade kit and path will be available when 2.0 is released. >For those who care, there are no plans to put Amiga UNIX on an A500. Just asking : Will the A2620 board be supported ? /Olof > "Klaatu barada nicto" > > Richard Buck, (215) 344-3019, buck@amix.commodore.com (4/91) -- & Olof Samuelsson | INTERNET : d8samol@dtek.chalmers.se & B|gatan 43B III | Phone: +46 31-832540 & 41272 G|teborg | Nuke: To destroy,demolish,hung into little bits, & SWEDEN | or make FUBAR,by means of atomic weapon,or computer