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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
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Moderator:HYDRA::MOORE
Created:Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5378
Total number of notes:38326

3867.0. "ULTRIX? " by DWOMV2::CAMPBELL (Delaware Amigan) Thu Jun 21 1990 04:08

    
    Maybe this is a naive question, but would it be possible to port 
    Ultrix to the Amiga?  Think of the interesting possibilities, such
    as SMP, DECNET, and DECWindows.  If if became "official", DEC could
    offer a very affordable entry level desktop video,etc. platform 
    (assuming Commodore would be agreeable to OEM the A3000).
    
    Dennis
    
    <working nights does strange things to your mind>
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3867.1ULTRA::KINDELBill Kindel @ BXB1Thu Jun 21 1990 13:1035
    Re .0:
    
>   ... would it be possible to port Ultrix to the Amiga?
    
    Commodore-Amiga is on the verge of announcing UNIX on the A3000 (some
    people were disappointed that the announcement wasn't made at the same
    time as the A3000 unveiling, but that's another issue).
    
    ULTRIX is a version of Berkeley UNIX that has been ported to the VAX
    and MIPS systems and enhanced for the Digital customer base (which
    includes Commodore-Amiga).
    
>   Think of the interesting possibilities, such as SMP, DECNET, and
>   DECWindows.
    
    Symmetrical Multi-Processing support is specific to the underlying
    hardware.  The ULTRIX implementation of SMP has nothing whatsoever to
    do with anything that might be done on an Amiga.
    
    It might be possible to port ULTRIX DECnet to an Amiga-based UNIX
    environment.  I expect that TCP/IP will already have been done by
    Commodore-Amiga.
    
    There should also be an X11 implementation, so DECwindows would be
    redundant.
    
>   If if became "official", DEC could offer a very affordable entry level
>   desktop video,etc. platform  (assuming Commodore would be agreeable to
>   OEM the A3000).
    
    I'd like to see the Amiga in some such role, as an alternative to
    MS-DOS and Macintosh machines.  Having been truly impressed by an A3000
    running TSSnet (DECnet Phase IV) and X11 windows across an Ethernet to
    a DECstation, there's ALREADY a lot that can be done, even before the
    Amiga is announced as a UNIX platform.
3867.2BOLTON::PLOUFFIt came from the... dessert!Thu Jun 21 1990 14:567
    Also worth noting: Dale Luck, author of GFXbase X Windows for Amiga, is
    currently consulting at Commodore in Pennsylvania.  He hasn't said why,
    but a reasonable guess would be something to do with Amiga Unix
    windowing.  BTW, Commodore will ship a port of Unix System V, 
    Release 4.
    
    Wes