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Amiga Unix (Amix)

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mepiantoday at 12:53 PM

OpenLook is nice but it's a bit of a shame it doesn't have its own version of Workbench.

rob74today at 1:46 PM

It's a bit strange to call Amiga Unix an "early Unix variant", if you consider that in 1990 Unix was already around 20 years old?

TheChaplaintoday at 12:46 PM

> Its kernel, libc, and much of its software is closed source, so when Commodore folded its story was over.

I am certain someone have the full source code somewhere, I just hope that they eventually say "f--k it, it has been 36 years, let the world have it".

Sharlintoday at 12:49 PM

> Did I mention it hasn't been updated in a decade? Put your Amiga UNIX machine on the net with no firewall and you may see it rooted faster than a Win98SE box running IE5.

I presume this was written back around 2005 or so, but honestly color me impressed if there has ever been malware targeting Amix in the wild.

Also, ouch :D

> Table 1: Unix standard → Amiga UNIX alternative

  mail   elm
  more   less
  finger Finger
  vi     emacs
  cc     gcc
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brongondwanatoday at 12:33 PM

Damn, $2000. I wish I'd kept my copy.

kunleytoday at 12:27 PM

Very honest warning there :)