5 Feb
2001
5 Feb
'01
9:27 a.m.
Is it a definite that AMIX would be on tape? I seem to remember seeing it at
a local Commodore/Amiga place, thought it was foppies though.. If anyone
cares, I can go look.. I'm sure it would still be there, as the guy who runs
it actually appreciates history and won't sell anything he has only one
of... But he does make copies hehe
Will J
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5 Feb
5 Feb
11:25 a.m.
I've got a copy, it's a 150 meg tape and two floppies.
-R
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From: "Will Jennings" <xds_sigma7(a)hotmail.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 5:27 PM
Subject: Re: Amiga Unix (was: Amiga development)
Is it a definite that AMIX would be on tape? I seem to
remember seeing it
at
a local Commodore/Amiga place, thought it was foppies
though.. If anyone
cares, I can go look.. I'm sure it would still be there, as the guy who
runs
it actually appreciates history and won't sell
anything he has only one
of... But he does make copies hehe
Will J
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7:07 p.m.
Will Jennings skrev:
Is it a definite that AMIX would be on tape? I seem to
remember seeing it at
a local Commodore/Amiga place, thought it was foppies though.. If anyone
cares, I can go look.. I'm sure it would still be there, as the guy who runs
it actually appreciates history and won't sell anything he has only one
of... But he does make copies hehe
Please do look.
BTW, what is AT&T's stance on SVR4? I doubt they treat it as
"abandonware",
though I suppose legacy UNIX customers would be more fickle than IBM or DEC
users could afford to be.
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6 Feb
6 Feb
2:18 a.m.
Will Jennings skrev:
The folks who OWN the rights to SVR4 is SCO -- and soon will be
Caldera. Perhaps they might be able to do something nice like SCO did
to the early pre SysV stuff.
I think, because the stuff only runs on Amiga you'd need whoever has the
Commodore rights to AMIX as well as SCO/Caldera to allow it to be copied
or put on the web.
Bill
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Is it a definite that AMIX would be on tape? I
seem to remember seeing it at
a local Commodore/Amiga place, thought it was foppies though.. If anyone
cares, I can go look.. I'm sure it would still be there, as the guy who runs
it actually appreciates history and won't sell anything he has only one
of... But he does make copies hehe
Please do look.
BTW, what is AT&T's stance on SVR4? I doubt they treat it as
"abandonware",
though I suppose legacy UNIX customers would be more fickle than IBM or DEC
users could afford to be.
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5:03 a.m.
I think, because the stuff only runs on Amiga
you'd need whoever has the
Commodore rights to AMIX as well as SCO/Caldera to allow it to be copied
or put on the web.
If Commodore still owned it at the bitter end, very likely Gateway has it
now. Amino only bought the license and name, not the trademarks, for those
interested. (Gateway isn't *that* stupid, even for a clone manufacturer. ;-)
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5:22 a.m.
At 11:03 AM 2/6/01 -0800, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
If Commodore still owned it at the bitter end, very
likely Gateway has it
now. Amino only bought the license and name, not the trademarks, for those
interested. (Gateway isn't *that* stupid, even for a clone manufacturer. ;-)
That's presuming that this license was listed as an asset
that was transferred. This is how ownership or licenses
get lost over time. If the lawyer wasn't told to put something
on the list, it's lost in limbo.
- John
8:25 a.m.
John Foust wrote:
That's presuming that this license was listed as
an asset
that was transferred. This is how ownership or licenses
get lost over time. If the lawyer wasn't told to put something
on the list, it's lost in limbo.
I may have something on this in a day or so. As soon as I hear from my
contact I'll tell the list.
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9:39 a.m.
Cameron Kaiser skrev:
> I think, because the stuff only runs on Amiga
you'd need whoever has the
> Commodore rights to AMIX as well as SCO/Caldera to allow it to be copied
> or put on the web.
If Commodore still owned it at the bitter end, very
likely Gateway has it
now. Amino only bought the license and name, not the trademarks, for those
interested. (Gateway isn't *that* stupid, even for a clone manufacturer. ;-)
OTOH, Gateway only bought the Amiga Technologies (ESCOM moved the Amiga
operation into a company of its own) assets. AMIX could possibly have belonged
to Commodore, which was subsequently bought by Tulip.
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11:55 a.m.
OTOH, Gateway only bought the Amiga Technologies
(ESCOM moved the Amiga
operation into a company of its own) assets. AMIX could possibly have belonged
to Commodore, which was subsequently bought by Tulip.
Tulip is a weird one. All they bought was the name, and then promptly allowed
it to be diluted by a wild string of office supply parts (a Commodore paper
shredder appeared a couple years back) and their inferior line of PC clones.
I actually have a "Commodore" PS/2 mouse connected to the 486 laptop.
Gateway, on the other hand, holds all the 8-bit rights as well (someone went
out and confirmed this). So, if it was part of the assets transferred (John
Foust makes a good point, it might not be), then Gateway has it -- they have
just about everything else.
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9:35 a.m.
Bill Pechter skrev:
> Will Jennings skrev:
>
> >Is it a definite that AMIX would be on tape? I seem to remember seeing it
> >at a local Commodore/Amiga place, thought it was foppies though.. If
> >anyone cares, I can go look.. I'm sure it would still be there, as the guy
> >who runs it actually appreciates history and won't sell anything he has
> >only one of... But he does make copies hehe
>
> Please do look.
> BTW, what is AT&T's stance on SVR4? I doubt they treat it as
"abandonware",
> though I suppose legacy UNIX customers would be more fickle than IBM or DEC
> users could afford to be.
The folks who OWN the rights to SVR4 is SCO -- and soon
will be
Caldera. Perhaps they might be able to do something nice like SCO did
to the early pre SysV stuff.
Is Caldera's entire business philosophy buying old, dilapidated software and
releasing it for free?
I think, because the stuff only runs on Amiga you'd
need whoever has the
Commodore rights to AMIX as well as SCO/Caldera to allow it to be copied
or put on the web.
BTW, Atari had an SVR4 port, too, around the same time, running on the TT030.
What is the mounty on the Atari version?
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