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I arrived in 1987 with my Amiga 1000 in tow, quickly discovered the school's Unix workstations (Sun 3/50, 3/60) and started using my Amiga more. They had the sa
by zengargoyle 5y ago
I arrived in 1987 with my Amiga 1000 in tow, quickly discovered the school's Unix workstations (Sun 3/50, 3/60) and started using my Amiga more. They had the same a.out format so you could compile on the Sun systems with the Unix fun stuff, link with a different library, side-load it onto the Amiga and you're good to go.
That A1000 ended up with 4MB, 14MHz 68020, SCSI controller, and 80MB of disk 'borrowed' from a Sun.
Sure the OS was a bit different, but it's basically a cut-rate Sun 3/60. So many earl Amiga devs were Unix nerds sitting in front of Suns all day and wanting something close to that feeling for home. Macintosh (lol), IBM PC (lol DOS).
Pretty much wasn't until Linux that the PC actually became useful at all.
- TacticalCoder 5y ago> Pretty much wasn't until Linux that the PC actually became useful at all. This. I got lucky to experience a SGI Indy when it came out and although going from my beloved Amiga to a 386 running DOS "because CPU speed" (and because the PC was obviously where it was heading) was a really bitter move. Then a 486. Then I discovered Linux and my 486 + Linux was my "poor boy's SGI Indy". Great memories (and still rocking desktop linux on my workstation on a daily basis).