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Its a pity Amiga team chose the 68000 instead of the 68010, since the the Pro Amiga would have had protected virtual memory.
by smallstepforman 3y ago
Its a pity Amiga team chose the 68000 instead of the 68010, since the the Pro Amiga would have had protected virtual memory.
- rbanffy 3y agoTheir original goal was a gaming console, not a general-purpose computer. One huge mistake was not to take Sun's hand and make the 3000/UX the low end option to Sun's workstation lineup.
- icedchai 3y agoWe always hear the Commodore / Sun 3000UX rumor. I'm skeptical. Sun already had their own 680x0 line of workstations (the Sun 3 series), which started about 5 years before the A3000 was released. Why would they need Commodore? They were basically done with 68K by that point, just like all the other Unix workstation vendors.
- rbanffy 3y agoGood point. It could be a stopgap. At the time the 3000 was launched, Sun was divesting from their 68K line in favor of the SPARC line, but the 3000 would fill a niche at a lower price point than Sun had with their own Sun/3 series (which were eye-wateringly expensive).
- icedchai 3y agoI wonder if they would've ported SunOS 4.x to the Amiga, or gone with modifications to Commodore's Unix, which was SysV based. I had a used Sun 3/60 for a while, back in the 90's.
- pjmlp 3y agoIt would have been yet another UNIX clone like SGI, without the features that make AmigaOS special in first place. NeXTSTEP was great, because their UNIX support was a means to bring software into the platform, and have a checkmark for DoD deals, not the way to develop NeXTSTEP applications.