Amix was Re: Aztec C (was: more eBay stuff)

[Bill Pechter]

On 5/31/07, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/31/07, Alexandre Souza <alexandre-listas at e-secure.com.br> wrote:
> > > I think Virginia Tech was a customer.  Too bad the port never got the
> > > marketing it deserved.  SVR4 with the Amiga graphics could've been a
> slick
> > > video editing system.
> >
> >     The Amiga OS with the Amiga graphics is a very slick video edit
> system
> > anyways :)
>
> I've wanted to play with Amix, but just haven't had the time to load
> it - I do have plenty of spare SCSI drives, and at least one A3000/25
> with a full boat of onboard RAM and an A2065, but, to be honest, when
> Amix was fresh, I was using AmigaDOS every day, didn't have a spare
> machine, didn't have (still don't have) better graphics than the
> onboard ECS chips, and was already running UNIX on other hardware that
> wasn't as slick as the Amiga.
>
> So... in my book, Amix wasn't a terrible idea, but it just never
> seemed like a slam-dunk for me personally.  Don't get me wrong; I love
> UNIX, and have been using and adminstrating and developing on it for
> 23 years (starting with 4BSD and SysV on a VAX-11/750).  I just think
> the Amiga can do a lot more interesting stuff under its native OS, and
> there's *plenty* of platforms out there for which UNIX _is_ the best
> choice.
>
> -ethan
>

Look what it could've done to the workstation market in price/performance if
someone other thah
Commodore was doing it/selling it.

bill


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