Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!snll-arpagw!paolucci
From: paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: amiga 2500UX
Keywords: amiga-unix amix 2500UX
Message-ID: <37@snll-arpagw.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jan 89 16:07:58 GMT
References: <974@cc-krs.UUCP> <11280@swan.ulowell.edu>
Reply-To: paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci)
Organization: Sandia National Labs, Livermore, CA
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In article <11280@swan.ulowell.edu> page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) writes:
->kim@cc-krs.UUCP (Kim Lilliestierna) wrote:
->>Has anybody heard anything about the 2500UX machine. Suposed to
->>come with 68020 and AMIX ( sys V.3)?
->
->It exists.  It works.  Has an MMU.  The custom windowing system (not
->intuition, workbench or X, or anything else you've ever seen) is
->pretty slick.  No flames, OK?  A non-standard windowing system is
->better than nothing.  Beside, it's slick.  VERY fast.

Why Commodore does not use X as the windowing system I cannot understand.
There should be two big reasons why they shold use it:

1) It is fast becoming the standard Unix windowing system.

2) A former Commodore-Amiga employee (Dale Luck) has already X11
   working under AmigaDOS.

->..Bob
->-- 
->Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept.  page@swan.ulowell.edu  ulowell!page
->Have five nice days.
-- 
					-+= SAM =+-
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