Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc References: <720142866@user-38lcc1q.dialup.mindspring.com> <13217006@sourcery.han.de> <5vvl5l$6b1$1@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> From: "Olaf Barthel" Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 16:28:02 +0100 X-NewsReader: IntuiNews 1.3a (7.9.95) Subject: Re: Amiga UNIX owned by Gateway2000? Message-ID: <13217026@sourcery.han.de> Lines: 20 Path: 195.95.96.10!news.unisource.be!planetinternet.be!newsgate.unisource.nl!bullseye.news.demon.net!demon!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!news.idt.net!ais.net!howland.erols.net!nntprelay.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.rz.uni-hildesheim.de!baghira.han.de!sourcery.han.de!not-for-mail In Article <5vvl5l$6b1$1@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>, George Noel wrote: > [..] > > We thought about Amiga Unix even back at Amiga Technologies last year. > >But the trouble is that a) the source code is lost and b) even if it were > > Really? What ELSE has been lost at AT/AI? Quite a lot, actually. Commodore did not collapse in an "orderly manner", every piece of mobile property ended up in a warehouse, such as workstations software packages, books and a large library of tapes (more than 600 whose contents were still to be archived when Amiga Technologies went belly up). Some of this material was sold off by ESCOM, some was transported to Germany lateron. Legal documents, hardware schematics and manuscripts are also lost. There is hope that some of the material may be on the few hundred tapes, but I really don't know whether the process of archiving their contents was ever completed. -- Home: Olaf Barthel, Brabeckstrasse 35, D-30559 Hannover Net: olsen@sourcery.han.de