Commodore International Ltd – which had its Unix-based Amiga 2500 machines crawling all over the Unix International stand at Unix Expo recently – is becoming a little more forthcoming about its future Unix plans. The 2500UX, a standard 2000 box with a 68030 board upgrade running Unix V.3 and AmigaDOS, has been shown widely in North America for the last six months or so, but is regarded basically as a development system, and Commodore UK believes it very unlikely that the thing will ever come to market. What is planned is a 68030 Amiga 3000 machine running Unix V.4 and AmigaDOS, partitioned like MacOS and A/UX on the Macintosh, which will be out at the beginning of next year. An 80486 machine is also reportedly under development, and the company says it is currently evaluating several RISC architectures.
