Path: utzoo!censor!becker!bdb
From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: amiga 2500UX
Keywords: amiga-unix amix 2500UX
Message-ID: <226@becker.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jan 89 07:50:47 GMT
References: <974@cc-krs.UUCP> <11280@swan.ulowell.edu> <15088@cisunx.UUCP>
Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
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In article <15088@cisunx.UUCP> ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy) writes:
>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
>
>Any idea whether it allows Unix and AmigaDOS simultaneously, or Unix and
>MS-DOS simultaneously?

	None that they were willing to talk about. The 2500UX was
	shown here recently; I pressed them about Amiga stuff under
	AMIX - the current plans don't seem to include it at all,
	which I found quite disappointing. The notion of source-code
	compatibility isn't in the cards either as far as I could
	tell, which is a shame in my view. It's harder to understand
	what value there is (except "gee-whiz" perhaps) to having a
	Unix on the Amiga which doesn't take a lot of advantage of the
	Amiga hardware niceties. Otherwise it's too much "me-too"
	to be a big hit (or so I think - other opinions?)

	As a Unix implementation it seems competent, and they've
	rolled their own windowing user interface as is all the
	rage these days... Nothing about X, NeWS, Open Look, etc...
	They have done a super job on text scrolling - *really fast*...

	"Source code? We're not sure yet..." - folks, let them know
	about the evils of sourcelessness in Unix...


>Eric Kennedy
>ejkst@cisunx.UUCP

Cheers,
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