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The A3000UX is a model of the Amiga computer family that was released with Commodore Amiga Unix installed instead of AmigaOS, a full port of AT&T Unix System V Release 4. At one point, Sun Microsystems approached Commodore-Amiga Inc. with the offer to produce the A3000UX under license, as a low- to mid-range alternative to the high-end Sun workstations. The Amiga is a family of home/personal computers originally developed by Amiga Corporation as an advanced game console. ...
Commodore International did a full port of AT&T Unix System V Release 4 Unix for the Amiga computer family (in addition to the proprietary AmigaOS shipping with these systems by default), commonly addressed as AMIX. Contrary to the popular belief that Amigas were primarily gaming machines, this port was...
Wikibooks has more about this subject: Guide to UNIX Unix or UNIX is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by a group of AT&T Bell Labs employees including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and Douglas McIlroy. ...
Sun Microsystems, Inc. ...
That this offer was declined was one of the many "strange" management decisions that led to the popular belief that Amiga would have been a real success story but for the Commodore management. The Amiga is a family of home/personal computers originally developed by Amiga Corporation as an advanced game console. ...
Commodore is the commonly used name for Commodore International, a West Chester, Pennsylvania based electronics company who was a vital player in the home/personal computer field in the 1980s. ...
It is possible that Commodore (or a third party) repurposed A3000UX machines for standard AmigaOS - this editor's A3000 had a sticker on the back labeled "A3000UX (B) NTSC 4MB RAM/ 100MB DISK". However, the case has a custom paint job and so it is currently unknown if the case was rebadged, or who was responsible for making it an AmigaDOS machine. This particular machine was acquired with hardware 2.04 ROMs and Workbench 2.1 installed.
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Commodore is the commonly used name for Commodore International, a West Chester, Pennsylvania based electronics company who was a vital player in the home/personal computer field in the 1980s. ...
The MOS Technology 6502 is an 8-bit microprocessor designed by MOS Technology in 1975. ...
8-bit refers to the number of bits used in the data bus of a computer. ...
The KIM-1, short for Keyboard Input Monitor, was a small 6502-based microcomputer kit developed and produced by MOS Technology, Inc. ...
The PET (Personal Electronic Transactor) was a home-/personal computer produced by Commodore starting in the late 1970s. ...
The Commodore CBM-II series was a short-lived series of personal computers from Commodore International, intended as a follow-on to the Commodore PET series, released in 1982. ...
VIC-20 with accessories. ...
Commodore 64 (1982) The Commodore 64 (C64, CBM 64/CBM64, C=64) is a home computer with 64 kilobytes of RAM that was popular in the 1980s. ...
The Commodore SX-64, also known as the Executive 64, was a portable, briefcase/suitcase-size luggable version of the popular Commodore 64 home computer and holds the distinction of being the first full-color portable computer. ...
The Commodore 16 was a home computer made by Commodore with a 6502-compatible 7501 CPU, released in 1984. ...
Commodore Plus/4. ...
The Commodore 128 is a home/personal computer, also known as the C128. ...
M68K-based (16/32-bit): Amiga 1000 | Amiga 500 | Amiga 2000 | Amiga 500+ | Amiga 2500 | Amiga 3000, UX, T | Amiga 600 | Amiga 1200 | Amiga 4000 The Motorola 68000 is a CISC microprocessor, the first member of a successful family of microprocessors from Motorola, which were all mostly software compatible. ...
In computer science, 16-bit is an adjective used to describe integers that are at most two bytes wide, or to describe CPU architectures based on registers, address buses, or data buses of that size. ...
32-bit is a term applied to processors, and computer architectures which manipulate the address and data in 32-bit chunks. ...
This page is about a computer. ...
Missing image A500 The A500, also known as the Amiga 500, was the first low-end Commodore Amiga 16_bit multimedia home/personal computer model. ...
The A2000, also known as the Commodore Amiga 2000, is the high-end Amiga personal computer that was released in 1987 at the same time as the low-end high-volume model A500. ...
The Amiga 2500, also known as the A2500, was an enhanced version of the Commodore Amiga 2000. ...
The A3000, also known as the Commodore Amiga 3000, was a much more serious proposition to build a professional multimedia computer than the previous A2000 effort. ...
The Amiga 3000T is the tower version of the Commodore Amiga 3000. ...
The Amiga 1200, or A1200, was Commodore Internationals third-generation Amiga computer, aimed at the home market. ...
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