Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!unisoft!gethen!farren
From: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AMIX?
Message-ID: <863@gethen.UUCP>
Date: 12 Apr 88 19:11:04 GMT
References: <466@mailrus.cc.umich.edu>
Reply-To: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Organization: There's Unix there in Oakland
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Keywords: Amiga AMIX Unix

In article <466@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> mike@ronin.cc.umich.edu () writes:
|In Amazing Computing, Vol 3. Num 4., there is an ad for AMIX from
|Lamplighter Software.  According to the ad, AMIX is:
|
|	* Unix System V compatible
|	* A multi-user, multi-tasking Unix workalike
|	* Compatible with Amiga-DOS file structure
|	* Access Amiga-DOS special functions such as sound and graphics
|
|I called them up and according to the woman on the phone, it is two weeks
|from shipping, will cost $395, and will allow Amiga applications to run under
|AMIX.  They are sending me more information.
|Does anyone else have any information on this?  It sounds like an interesting
|alternative.

Two, out of a thousand, questions: 1) How close to a real Unix is it?
Does it provide all of Unix's functionality?  All of Unix's utilities?
And 2) Would you buy a Unix from someone who couldn't support it?  I
mean REALLY support it?  I wouldn't.  Not in a billion years.  I'd
suggest waiting for C/A's own Unix, since it's already been announced.
Might cost you more, but I would think there's a better chance that
it'll work right, and do what you want.

-- 
Michael J. Farren             | "INVESTIGATE your point of view, don't just 
{ucbvax, uunet, hoptoad}!     | dogmatize it!  Reflect on it and re-evaluate
        unisoft!gethen!farren | it.  You may want to change your mind someday."
gethen!farren@lll-winken.llnl.gov ----- Tom Reingold, from alt.flame