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When Atari shipped UNIX: 1992's Atari System V (1990s atari tt030 unix sysv 68030) (substack.com | ia)
8 points by bmonkey325 465 days ago | 3 comments
  • celso 464 days ago
    Similarly, 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 465 days ago
    The 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 464 days ago
    I have two of these machines which I've been meaning to get running
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