1 Jun
2007
1 Jun
'07
5:05 a.m.
On 5/31/07, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/31/07, Alexandre Souza <alexandre-listas at e-secure.com.br> wrote:
system
Look what it could've done to the workstation market in price/performance if
someone other thah
Commodore was doing it/selling it.
bill
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> I think Virginia Tech was a customer. Too
bad the port never got the
> marketing it deserved. SVR4 with the Amiga graphics could've been a
slick
video
editing system.
The Amiga OS with the Amiga graphics is a very slick video edit anyways :)
I've wanted to play with Amix, but just haven't had the time to load
it - I do have plenty of spare SCSI drives, and at least one A3000/25
with a full boat of onboard RAM and an A2065, but, to be honest, when
Amix was fresh, I was using AmigaDOS every day, didn't have a spare
machine, didn't have (still don't have) better graphics than the
onboard ECS chips, and was already running UNIX on other hardware that
wasn't as slick as the Amiga.
So... in my book, Amix wasn't a terrible idea, but it just never
seemed like a slam-dunk for me personally. Don't get me wrong; I love
UNIX, and have been using and adminstrating and developing on it for
23 years (starting with 4BSD and SysV on a VAX-11/750). I just think
the Amiga can do a lot more interesting stuff under its native OS, and
there's *plenty* of platforms out there for which UNIX _is_ the best
choice.
-ethan