Amiga Unix

AMIX (Amiga UNIX) is a commercial UNIX operating system, the Commodore and specifically geared to the Amiga computers of the company. Developed in the 1990s, was the 68k -based Unix derivative as one of the best implementations of System V R4, which at the time were available.

The operating system it was ( an Amiga 2000 with 68020 card with PMMU or later 68030 and A2091 SCSI card ) for the Amiga 2500 and consequently also for the Amiga 3000th It was Commodore 150 MB tape cartridge delivered to an external SCSI tape drive A3070.

Deliveries in Germany was made possible on the Amiga 1991 in Cologne ( the Commodore Amiga house show ) with a then leading mail order company by a correspondingly large order. As a member of the UNIX International Working Group Germany eV Commodore at the time was used for UNIX on the desktop. Less than 1,000 copies came into the market. The OS has been developed to Release 2.1.

The system was used only for a short time on the 68030 - based Amiga 2500 and Amiga 3000UX UX models - then the development team was disbanded and the marketing set.

There were before the chance for a well-known workstation manufacturers a greater number machines to sell as an OEM product - but this never occurred: Sun offered to Commodore, the A3000 and A4000 series along with a UNIX operating system as a low-end complement to Sun's workstations to market. Commodore politely declined and thus not only missed a potentially good deal, but according to many observers the opportunity to raise the image of its commercial Amiga series.

Today exist as an alternative Linux68k or NetBSD.

Parallel had Commodore SCO UNIX in partnership with Garmhausen & Partners for its PC series in sales. AmigaOS remained dominant and groundbreaking for the further development of the Amiga and related systems. At the same time Linus Torvalds Linux started to develop and there was an active community around the system.