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We 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 y
by icedchai 3y ago
We 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.