Re: Sun 3y?

["Travis L. Smith" <tsmith%mail.orion.org@localhost>]

Hi,
        I was wondering if you remember anything else about Amiga Unix?
I'm picking up an A3070 tape drive tomorrow, to install SVR4A 2.1 on a
320MB HD. Do you know what the last version was, or have any tips?
        It has a third disk "Patch Disk 1-2A" with the "A" written by 
hand. Is this applied to the Installation disk or to the kernel after the 
tape is installed?
        If you could help with this or point me to place to find some 
docs for A-UNIX, I would be most grateful.

P.S. Could I quote your letter below on my upcoming web page? Alta Vista 
should find something when searching for "Amiga UNIX" :)

On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Peter Seebach wrote:

> Sun's interest in the 3000UX was rather that Amiga Unix was a fully functional
> SVR4, briefly compliant with the ABI (but changed slightly due to a gcc bug),
> and was a *damn* good implementation... They were going to take advantage of
> the ABI to guarantee compatability, trade a few drivers, and end up with
> Solaris 2 for the Sun 3 series.
> 
> Commodore backed out because they wanted to get more money, and Sun decided 
> not to do the port themselves.
> 
> This is probably one of the more vivid examples of why commodore died; to this
> day, many of us still suspect that the management was bought, rather than
> merely stupid.
> 
> 
> It is a shame; Amiga Unix was probably the best SVR4 I've ever used, modulo
> a couple of bugs which would have been fixed if they hadn't fired all of the
> developers.  A *nice* system, and one of the few commercial Unices to ship
> standard with a wide selection of GNU tools.
> 
> -s
> 

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