by rob74 on 2/1/26, 1:46 PM
It's a bit strange to call Amiga Unix an "early Unix variant", if you consider that in 1990 Unix was already around 20 years old?
by mjg59 on 2/1/26, 6:56 PM
It's a somewhat weird product. There's no real access to any of the hardware that made the Amiga impressive at the time, without an add-on graphics card you're going to have a bad time in X, and it replaces AmigaOS entirely so you don't have any ability to run Amiga software at the same time (it's not like a/is in that regard). It's an extremely generic Unix, and I don't know who Commodore really thought they were selling it to. But despite all this is was cheaper than a comparable Sun? Extremely confusing.
by TheChaplain on 2/1/26, 12:46 PM
> Its kernel, libc, and much of its software is closed source, so when Commodore folded its story was over.
I am certain someone have the full source code somewhere, I just hope that they eventually say "f--k it, it has been 36 years, let the world have it".
by kevin_thibedeau on 2/1/26, 6:05 PM
It's interesting to see color OpenLook. I only ever saw it on B&W or grayscale Sun boxes.
by mepian on 2/1/26, 12:53 PM
OpenLook is nice but it's a bit of a shame it doesn't have its own version of Workbench.
by Sharlin on 2/1/26, 12:49 PM
> Did I mention it hasn't been updated in a decade? Put your Amiga UNIX machine on the net with no firewall and you may see it rooted faster than a Win98SE box running IE5.
I presume this was written back around 2005 or so, but honestly color me impressed if there has ever been malware targeting Amix in the wild.
Also, ouch :D
> Table 1: Unix standard → Amiga UNIX alternative
mail elm
more less
finger Finger
vi emacs
cc gcc
by brongondwana on 2/1/26, 12:33 PM
Damn, $2000. I wish I'd kept my copy.
by stuaxo on 2/1/26, 3:48 PM
I hope someone decompiles this.
by rabarar on 2/1/26, 6:15 PM
I bought an Amiga 3000 back in the day just for Unix SVR4! it was exceptional! the only disappointment was it ran Open Look and not the ever-more-popular Motif X-Windows Widgets out of the box
by kunley on 2/1/26, 12:27 PM
Very honest warning there :)