AMIX History

What is Amiga UNIX?

Amiga UNIX is Commodore's port of AT&T System V Release 4 to the Amiga with Motorola 68020 and 68030 processors having FPU and MMU. The two "official" machines which could run Amiga UNIX are the Amiga 2500UX and the 3000UX, however it can run on any Amiga that meets its requirements. Specifically:

• The system must have a full 68020/68030 with FPU and MMU
• At least 4MB of fast RAM
• SCSI hard drive attached to a supported controller

This basically includes the Amiga 2000, 2500, 3000D and 3000T with the appropriate CPU and SCSI controllers. Although the A3000UX has Zorro III capable slots, the only cards ever supported by AMIX are Zorro II. Driver support is quite limited, although not desperately so. You have a choice of at least two ethernet cards for example.

History of Amiga UNIX

One of the first public demonstrations of the Amiga 3000T running Amiga Unix was at the 1988 Uniforum Conference in Dallas, TX.

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For a quick summary you can look at the entry on the Wikipedia.

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