A3000UX
|
|
The A3000UX is a model of the Amiga computer family that was released with Commodore Amiga Unix installed instead of AmigaOS, a full port of AT&T Unix System V Release 4. At one point, Sun Microsystems approached Commodore-Amiga Inc. with the offer to produce the A3000UX under license, as a low- to mid-range alternative to the high-end Sun workstations.
That this offer was declined was one of the many "strange" management decisions that led to the popular belief that Amiga would have been a real success story but for the Commodore management.
It is possible that Commodore (or a third party) repurposed A3000UX machines for standard AmigaOS - this editor's A3000 had a sticker on the back labeled "A3000UX (B) NTSC 4MB RAM/ 100MB DISK". However, the case has a custom paint job and so it is currently unknown if the case was rebadged, or who was responsible for making it an AmigaDOS machine. This particular machine was acquired with hardware 2.04 ROMs and Workbench 2.1 installed.
| List of Commodore microcomputers |
|
MOS Technology 6502-based (8-bit): MOS/CBM KIM-1 |
PET/CBM |
CBM-II (aka B/P series) |
VIC-20/VC-20 |
C64 |
SX-64 |
C16 & 116 |
Plus/4 |
C128 |