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I ran NetBSD 0.8 on my Amiga 500 (with a 68030 w/MMU, 68881, and SCSI hard drive sidecar), which co-existed in the same timeframe as Commodore's release. Other

by breput 14d ago

I ran NetBSD 0.8 on my Amiga 500 (with a 68030 w/MMU, 68881, and SCSI hard drive sidecar), which co-existed in the same timeframe as Commodore's release. Other than just than "we can" and historic interest, I can't imagine why anyone would choose to run System Vr4 over 4.4BSD, especially since the latest NetBSD 11 release still fully supports Amiga[0] [0] https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/amiga/ https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/amiga/

cryptonector 14d ago
> Other than just than "we can" and historic interest, I can't imagine why anyone would choose to run System Vr4 over 4.4BSD Nostalgia is my guess. SVR4 on Amiga was the first SVR4 commercial release IIRC. Solaris 2.x came later, but not much later. At Sun we had a saying for referring to garbage from the SVR4 that we had to fix, rewrite, or terminate with prejudice over time (think STREAMS, XTI, and all that, but also much of userland): 'it came from New Jersey'. So, yeah, I wouldn't want to run SVR4 for any reason other than nostalgia, and honestly not even nostalgia. For me nostalgia is for OpenSolaris and such.
jimjimjim 14d ago
Your 500 had a 030?
- code_duck 14d ago
  You could buy accelerator boards for the 500 and 2000.
  - jimjimjim 14d ago
    Ah, good point. I had a 500 and a 1200 but I can't really remember the wider scene.
vidarh 14d ago
As an Amiga user, I don't even get the nostalgia for Amiga Unix. I don't have nostalgia for early versions of the various Unix versions I've used. It doesn't hit nearly the same as using AmigaOS on the Amiga did. Partly, I guess, because it's not different enough from what I use now.
- icedchai 14d ago
  I have nostalgia for early SunOS 4 because that was the first Unix system I got access to!
a96 14d ago
I tried to get NetBSD on an Amiga way back as well and that was supposed to be my gateway from home computers to a real OS, but there was some problem with getting enough or working hard drive space or something that I can't recall exactly anymore. So close, but still so far. It took several more years before I got some hardware that would run either NetBSD or Linux.
rbanffy 14d ago
> I can't imagine why anyone would choose to run System Vr4 With X, using an Amiga 3000/4000 as a daily driver is possible. I did use an IBM PowerPC 43P as a daily driver under AIX 3.1 for a long while (until I gave up on having ssh working on it). The 43P was, however, paired to a humongous Intergraph CRT that I can't move across a national border because of the amount of rare earths used to make it, and was a very ample desktop for the 2010s. Until the advent of 4K monitors, I didn't have anything beating that - on a VGA connection. The Amiga is far more limited than that. In terms of vintage Unix desktops, it's hard to beat Acorn's RISC/iX with its IXI desktop. I believe Atari Unix also had something similarly cool.

by breput 14d ago

cryptonector 14d ago

> Other than just than "we can" and historic interest, I can't imagine why anyone would choose to run System Vr4 over 4.4BSD Nostalgia is my guess. SVR4 on Amiga was the first SVR4 commercial release IIRC. Solaris 2.x came later, but not much later. At Sun we had a saying for referring to garbage from the SVR4 that we had to fix, rewrite, or terminate with prejudice over time (think STREAMS, XTI, and all that, but also much of userland): 'it came from New Jersey'. So, yeah, I wouldn't want to run SVR4 for any reason other than nostalgia, and honestly not even nostalgia. For me nostalgia is for OpenSolaris and such.

jimjimjim 14d ago

Your 500 had a 030?

code_duck 14d ago
You could buy accelerator boards for the 500 and 2000.
- jimjimjim 14d ago
  Ah, good point. I had a 500 and a 1200 but I can't really remember the wider scene.

vidarh 14d ago

As an Amiga user, I don't even get the nostalgia for Amiga Unix. I don't have nostalgia for early versions of the various Unix versions I've used. It doesn't hit nearly the same as using AmigaOS on the Amiga did. Partly, I guess, because it's not different enough from what I use now.

icedchai 14d ago
I have nostalgia for early SunOS 4 because that was the first Unix system I got access to!

a96 14d ago

I tried to get NetBSD on an Amiga way back as well and that was supposed to be my gateway from home computers to a real OS, but there was some problem with getting enough or working hard drive space or something that I can't recall exactly anymore. So close, but still so far. It took several more years before I got some hardware that would run either NetBSD or Linux.

rbanffy 14d ago

> I can't imagine why anyone would choose to run System Vr4 With X, using an Amiga 3000/4000 as a daily driver is possible. I did use an IBM PowerPC 43P as a daily driver under AIX 3.1 for a long while (until I gave up on having ssh working on it). The 43P was, however, paired to a humongous Intergraph CRT that I can't move across a national border because of the amount of rare earths used to make it, and was a very ample desktop for the 2010s. Until the advent of 4K monitors, I didn't have anything beating that - on a VGA connection. The Amiga is far more limited than that. In terms of vintage Unix desktops, it's hard to beat Acorn's RISC/iX with its IXI desktop. I believe Atari Unix also had something similarly cool.