- celso 245 days agoSimilarly, around the same time, there was Amix, also a (hacky) port of the AT&T Unix System V for the Amiga 3000 running on a 68030. It was very short-lived, but I managed to play around with it in the university. I guess that at some point in time, everyone thought that supporting Unix in their higher-end platforms was going to be the magic gateway to corporate businesses and universities.
- me 246 days agoThe TT was severely underpowered as a UNIX machine when it came out (and not that inexpensive) - a Sun 3/60 had comparable features already in 1986 (I had a TT which I sold since I couldn’t get my hands on Atari System V and then got a 3/60 which I still own). By 1992, the second generation of RISC machines by Sun, DEC and others was on the market which significantly outperformed the 68030.
- Lammy 246 days agoI have two of these machines which I've been meaning to get running