The SVR4 UNIX operating system called AMIX, officially known as Commodore Amiga UNIX running under FS-UAE. The video shows AMIX running on a virtual A3000 with 68030 CPU, 68882 FPU, an A2065 network card and a Picasso II+ graphics card installed. Additional 3rd drivers for the graphics card to provide a high resolution colour display have been installed. In addition to twm, a full OpenLook desktop was distributed with AMIX. AMIX was one of the first (if not the first) ports of SVR4 to the Motorola 68k series of processors. At the time, Sun Microsystems were even interested in rebadging the Commodore Amiga 3000UX as an entry level Sun Workstation, but ultimately the deal fell through.
Whilst AMIX was a particularly faithful implementation of SVR4, it failed to exploit many of the unique features and strengths of the Amiga hardware platform. In particular it's multimedia capabilities. Support for 3rd party hardware was also very limited. It also cannot run on new processors such as the 040 and 060. Amix was the official operating system of the Amiga 2500UX, 3000UX and Amiga 3500, although the latter was never released in production.
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