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  Amiga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The first Amiga computer, simply called the Amiga, was released in 1985 by Commodore, who marketed it both as their intended successor to the Commodore 64 and as their competitor against the Atari ST range.
In the same year, Commodore released three new low-end machines: the CDTV, aimed to move the platform to the living room; the A500+, with the same enhancements as the A3000; and the A600, basically an A500+ in a smaller box with an IDE controller for hard disks.
The Amiga 600 was originally supposed to be the Amiga 300, a very low-cost "introductory" model, but in an attempt to cut costs plans from CBM management changed at the last minute, and it was instead marketed as the successor to the 500 and the 500+.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amiga   (3296 words)

  
 amiga   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The original Amiga Inc. company was bought out in 1984 by Commodore, who marketed the Amiga as their intended successor to the Commodore 64, and as the competitor against the Atari ST range.
The last Amigas to be made were the A1200 and the A4000, the last leaving the assembly line in 1996.
Unfortunately, although the Amiga was very successful in Europe, especially in the UK and Germany, it was less lucky in the US market, with fewer than a million sold.
www.yourencyclopedia.net /Amiga.html   (1178 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Commodore Amiga Unix   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Commodore International did a full port of ATandT Unix System V Release 4 Unix for the Amiga computer family (in addition to the proprietary AmigaOS shipping with these systems by default), commonly addressed as AMIX.
Commodore is the commonly used name for Commodore International, a West Chester, Pennsylvania based electronics company who was a vital player in the personal computer field.
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 ATandT Unix System V Release 4.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Commodore-Amiga-Unix   (377 words)

  
 CERT Advisory CA-1993-04 Commodore Amiga UNIX finger Vulnerability
The vulnerability affects Commodore Amiga UNIX versions 1.1, 2.03, 2.1, 2.1p1, 2.1p2, and 2.1p2a.
Commodore is aware of the vulnerability, and both a workaround and a patch are available.
The Commodore contact e-mail address given in CERT Advisory CA-93.04 was incorrect.
www.cert.org /advisories/CA-1993-04.html   (368 words)

  
 Amiga at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
There was a very limited number of clones (Amiga-compatible computers), as Commodore as well as later owners of the trademark adamantly refused to have Amigas produced under license.
The Amiga chipsets, OCS, ECS and AGA, were more advanced than other architectures of their time: it had dedicated chips for graphic effects based on the monitor's beam position and the use of genlocks was very easy; even today many broadcast corporations still uses A3000s and A4000s for their real time video effects.
Many Amiga users are of the belief that that the Amiga will rise again, to reclaim its glory and cast the naysayers into the abyss of anonymity.
wiki.tatet.com /Amiga.html   (1128 words)

  
 Amiga   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The current owner of the trademark, Amiga Inc., has licensed the rights to make hardware using the Amiga brand to an U.K. computer vendor, Eyetech Group, Ltd founded by some former employees of the UK branch of Commodore International.
The Amiga 600 was originally supposed to be the Amiga 300, a very low-cost "introductory" model, but its specification changed prior to release, and it was instead marketed as the successor to the 500 and the 500+.
Steve Jobs was shown the original prototype for the first Amiga (Amiga 1000) before it had been purchased by Commodore, and said there was "too much hardware." He was working on Macintosh at the time.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/A/Amiga.htm   (2680 words)

  
 Amiga   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
imageThe original Amiga Inc. company was bought out in 1984 by Commodore, who marketed the Amiga as their intended successor to the Commodore 64, and as the competitor against the Atari ST range.
Power Computing were a very staunch Amiga supporter and, when their continued attempts to make their own machine under license were rejected, they instead got a license from Apple to make Macs and made "tower kits" for Amiga1200 owners to transplant their motherboards into.
Although the Amiga was very successful in Europe, especially in the UK and Germany, it was less successful in the US market, with fewer than a million sold.
www.yotor.com /wiki/en/am/Amiga.htm   (1243 words)

  
 Commodore Commodore Amiga Drive - Find it on VideoGameStreet.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Commodore Amiga Unix - AMIX a system make and so it sat on my hard drive more thanThe economy was very strong but Commodore was not.end of college also came the end of my Amiga ownership
Commodore Amiga 2000 are marked on the left side with "©1986 COMMODORE ", " AMIGA 2000" andSCSI controller and a SCSI hard disk drive installed.
Commodore Amiga 1000 computer 1986: Commodore releases Transformer software for the Amiga, which, along with the Commodore 1020 5 1/4-inch disk drive, provides limited MS-DOS compatibility.
www.videogamestreet.com /amiga-commodore-drive/t20t3543.html   (411 words)

  
 UAE - The UAE Amiga Emulator
A Commodore Amiga, for those who don't know, is a 16/32 bit computer system based on the Motorola 680x0 CPU and a few specially designed custom chips that provide very good graphics and sound capabilities.
Amiga Music Preservation (AMP), a non profit association, is running the biggest and most comprehensive database ever about amiga music and amiga musicians.
The UAE Amiga Emulator is brought to you by Bernd Schmidt.
freiburg.linux.de /~uae   (2101 words)

  
 Amiga Model Numbers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The 2080 was an early attempt by Commodore to reduce the problems of the RGB 15 Khz native Amiga screen mode in high resolution, where it flickers due to interlacing.
It also allowed the Amiga to run Amiga UNIX, which could be toggled using jumpers or a special bootmenu.
For use with Commodore Amiga UNIX for the A3000UX variant, the A3070 houses a Archive Viper 150MB 1/4" tape streamer mechanism in an attractive casing that matches the A3000 styling.
amiga.emugaming.com /modelnum.html   (2820 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Amiga
The Amiga, or sometimes nicknamed Miggy, is a personal computer whose development started in 1982.
Later Amiga models coupled with Video Toaster technology were used extensively for video editing and TV broadcasting.
Many Amiga users are of the belief that that the Amiga will rise again, to reclaim its glory and cast the naysayers into the abyss of anonmity.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Amiga   (941 words)

  
 Commodore.ca | Chronology of Commodore Computer History, Jack Tramiel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Commodore unveils the Commodore VIC-20 aka "the Friendly Computer" the first color microcomputer to sell for under $300 (299.95), features include a 5k RAM (3.5k for BASIC programs) expandable to 32k, a 22 col x 23 row 8/16 color diisplay capable of hi-resolution graphics, and a joystick interface.
Commodore International announced that it had been unable to renegotiate terms of its outstanding loans and was closing down the business.
The Amiga is still being produced and supported by several companies, though without as much support or notice as it had in previous years.
www.commodore.ca /history/company/chronology_portcommodore.htm   (3665 words)

  
 What is Amiga? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Amigas are powerful personal computers that have extra microprocessors to handle graphics and sound generation.
The Amiga operating system has had preemptive multitasking since its inception in 1985, 10 years before this feature found its way into Microsoft Windows.
Although the Amiga operating system is not compatible with other PC operating systems, such as DOS and Windows, there are emulation programs that enable an Amiga to run PC, Macintosh, and even UNIX programs.
www.webopedia.com /TERM/A/Amiga.html   (520 words)

  
 Commodore Amiga Unix -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Commodore Amiga Unix -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
The Amiga (additional info and facts about A3000UX) A3000UX model even got the attention of (additional info and facts about Sun Microsystems) Sun Microsystems, but unfortunately Commodore did not jump at the opportunity.
While (additional info and facts about NetBSD) NetBSD and (An open-source version of the UNIX operating system) Linux are still available to what is left of the Amiga user base, the commercial and AT&T-licensed Amiga Unix has not
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/co/commodore_amiga_unix.htm   (118 words)

  
 Commodore Amiga Operating System   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The story of the early Amiga Corp. has been distributed widely and openly debated.
The result of this was the contracting of MetaComco, a British company based in Bristol, commissioned to port TripOS to the Amiga hardware and integrate it into EXEC.
Unlike Unix, however, it was geared towards an end-user system that would be enjoyable to use, rather than frustrating to use.
amiga.emugaming.com /caos.html   (480 words)

  
 OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : The Museum
The inventor of the Amiga 1000 was Jay Miner, who created the Atari 800 many years before.
Amiga Corp. then offered the technology to Commodore, Inc., who were quite pleased to purchase it, seeing that their own 16-bit computer was so far from reaching the shelf.
The Amiga 1000 was to lose popularity one year later with the creation of its two main successors: the Amiga 500 and the Amiga 2000.
www.old-computers.com /museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=28   (528 words)

  
 NetBSD/Amiga 1.0
Some years back, the word on the Amiga Usenet groups was that legendary Amiga programmer Matt Dillon was going to port 4.4BSD Unix to the Amiga.
The story goes that AT&T's System V Unix was the domain of industry and the commercial user, while BSD was the Unix of choice for academia, no doubt from its roots at the University of California, Berkeley.
Commodore's Amiga Unix (AMIX) was the first commercially available full implementation of System V Release 4 Unix.
jeacle.ie /pub/articles/netbsd   (1458 words)

  
 ISS X-Force Database: amiga-finger(522): Amiga Unix allows access to files using finger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Amiga Unix allows access to files using finger
The finger command in Amiga Unix allows non-privileged users to access files that they would not normally be able to access.
CVE-1999-1218: Vulnerability in finger in Commodore Amiga UNIX 2.1p2a and earlier allows local users to read arbitrary files.
xforce.iss.net /xforce/xfdb/522   (276 words)

  
 Amiga Source   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The philosophy behind the development of Amithlon was not to create an Amiga emulator that runs on top of some PC OS, but to turn a current PC into an Amiga.
NetBSD/amiga is the port of NetBSD to the Amiga line of personal computers by Commodore and Amiga International, and to the DraCo by MacroSystem GmbH.
The Omega environment is based on Amiga OS 3.0, and is a perfect GUI emulation, supporting Amiga gadgets, scrollbars and draggable screens.
net.cciinter.net /users/amigasource/ml/39.htm   (2400 words)

  
 Welcome to comp.unix.questions [Frequent posting]
comp.unix.amiga Unix on the Commodore Amiga comp.unix.aux The version of UNIX for Apple Macintosh II computers.
People should not post to this group unless they have used unix as a user, sysadmin and know details of the kernel, and how different unix kernels differ.
There are hundreds of different Unix systems out there, and they all have less in common than you might think.
www.faqs.org /faqs/unix-faq/unix/intro   (1215 words)

  
 Amiga UNIX
Created to share experiences with the Amiga UNIX Operating System.
We can talk about the other versions (LINUX and NetBSD) of UNIX for the Amiga but that would be at a later date.
Show us your Amiga UNIX stuff by placing pictures here.
groups.msn.com /AmigaUNIX/_homepage.msnw?pgmarket=en-us   (163 words)

  
 Amiga   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Unfortunately, Commodore thought that the Amiga was only suitable as a gaming or video-editing platform, so their marketing did not do the platform justice.
Different free Amiga emulators exist for a variety of operating systems.
For example UNIX and Microsoft Windows operating systems:
www.city-search.org /am/amiga.html   (955 words)

  
 Commodore: A2500UX   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Amiga 2500UX is really just an A2000 which was either supplied with a Commodore A2620 or A2630 processor card and a hard drive controller which was the Commodore A2090 or A2091.
Although the A2500UX is perfectly capable of running AmigaOS as standard, like the A3000UX it was supplied with and pre-installed with Commodore Amiga UNIX, commonly known as Amix.
Amix was a full port of ATandT's System V SVR4 UNIX and included the X Window System which is a server for hosting graphical environments and the Open Look graphical interface.
www.amiga-hardware.com /showhardware.cgi?HARDID=21   (129 words)

  
 Welcome to comp.unix.shell [Frequent posting]
This group, "comp.unix.shell" is only for questions relating to any of the Unix shells and shell programing.
Here are the capsule descriptions of various groups you might consider (extracted from a monthly posting to "news.announce.newusers") comp.unix.shell Using and programming any UNIX shell.
There are hundreds of different systems out there, and they all have less in common than you might think.
www.faqs.org /faqs/unix-faq/shell/intro   (1237 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Description The "finger" command in Amiga UNIX contains a security vulnerability.
Solution Commodore has suggested a workaround and a patch, as follows: A. Workaround As root, modify the permission of the existing /usr/bin/finger to prevent misuse.
# /bin/mv /usr/bin/finger /usr/bin/finger.orig # /bin/chmod 0755 /usr/bin/finger.orig In the directory, "/usr/src/pub/cmd/finger", issue the command: # cd /usr/src/pub/cmd/finger # make install - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The CERT Coordination Center wishes to thank Commodore Business Machines for their response to this problem.
www.textfiles.com /internet/CERT/cert0058.txt   (358 words)

  
 Seebach Exhibit 7: January 2004 Archives
Long ago, there was a computer called the Amiga.
So, the Amiga used to have this backup program, which came with the system, and it was called HDBackup, but it had a command-line back end, called BRU.
When Amiga Unix came out, they managed to get BRU ported to it.
www.seebs.net /log/archives/2004_01.html   (4916 words)

  
 List of Unix Variants
Altos ACS68000 with Unix System III R2 Amdahl mainframes with UTS 2.4 and UTSV 5.2.6b
AT 3B2 and 3B20 systems with Unix System V R2 AT 6300 PLUS with Unix System V R2 AT 6386 WGS Unix PC with Unix System V/386 3.2
Commodore Amiga with Unix System V R4 Commodore Amiga with MINIX 1.5.10
cbbrowne.com /info/unixlist.html   (580 words)

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