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Re:Amiga Unix (Amix) by Sharlin on Sunday February 01, 2026 @07:49AM (#46845875)
> Did I mention it hasn't been updated in a decade? Put your Amiga UNIX machine on the net with no firewall and you may see it rooted faster than a Win98SE box running IE5.

I presume this was written back around 2005 or so, but honestly color me impressed if there has ever been malware targeting Amix in the wild.

Also, ouch :D

> Table 1: Unix standard → Amiga UNIX alternative

  mail   elm
  more   less
  finger Finger
  vi     emacs
  cc     gcc
Re:Amiga Unix (Amix) by Keyframe on Sunday February 01, 2026 @07:53AM (#46845886)
Should've been vim since it originated on Amiga.
Re:Amiga Unix (Amix) by Sharlin on Sunday February 01, 2026 @07:58AM (#46845921)
Huh, TIL. And that vim’s creator died in 2023, at only 63 :(
Re:Amiga Unix (Amix) by sgt on Sunday February 01, 2026 @10:19AM (#46846763)
Re:Amiga Unix (Amix) by ThatGuyRaion on Sunday February 01, 2026 @10:39PM (#46852154)
A lot of good FOSS folks have died too soon. Joerg Schilling (cdrecord's author). He was a quirky, if genuinely talented fella.
Re:Amiga Unix (Amix) by rob74 on Sunday February 01, 2026 @08:46AM (#46846178)
It did indeed, but the original vim was developed for AmigaOS, not sure if there was an Amiga Unix version available...
Re:Amiga Unix (Amix) by Keyframe on Sunday February 01, 2026 @12:48PM (#46847880)
correct
Re:Amiga Unix (Amix) by tyingq on Sunday February 01, 2026 @12:48PM (#46847884)
Re:Amiga Unix (Amix) by __turbobrew__ on Monday February 02, 2026 @12:02AM (#46852615)
less is more