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The A3000-UX was too little, too late. By the time it came out, m68k UNIX workstations had been left in the dust by RISC. You could get a low-end SPARC for ro
by hapless 16y ago
The A3000-UX was too little, too late. By the time it came out, m68k UNIX workstations had been left in the dust by RISC.
You could get a low-end SPARC for roughly the same price, and have 2x the CPU power. If m68k was enough power, you could get a used Sun-3 for half the price of an Amiga, and have 10x as much available software.
It couldn't compete with the low-end, either: you could get a i386 UNIX for under $500, and run on any hardware you chose. (SCO, BSD/OS, Interactive, Coherent, AT&T SVR4 all ran on PCs by this time.)
- mtviewdave 16y agoTo contrast with the $500 i386 Unix: if you had a non-UX Amiga 3000 and wanted to get a copy of Amiga Unix for it, the price was $1,000. But this was for a version that would only allow two users to be logged in simultaneously. This included "users" like root, uucp, etc. If you wanted unlimited users, the cost was $1,200.