Editing Amiga Unix (section)

==Speculation==

Unsubstantiated rumours of the adoption of the Amiga 3000UX as a product by Sun Microsystems have been presented in various online venues,<ref name="bbah">{{ cite web | url=http://www.bigbookofamigahardware.com/bboah/product.aspx?id=26 | title=A3000UX - Commodore | website=Big Book of Amiga Hardware | access-date=19 April 2024 | quote=Shortly after release, Sun Microsystems, a major UNIX vendor was interested in rebadging the A3000UX for supplying as an entry level UNIX workstation. Unfortunately in true Commodore style, the deal fell through. }}</ref> despite Sun already fielding a comprehensive workstation range and pursuing a technological direction that was leading the company away from Motorola's 68000 family and towards Sun's favoured SPARC architecture, describing demand for 68000 family systems as "very, very low".<ref name="computerworld19900402_motorola">{{ cite magazine | url=https://archive.org/details/computerworld2414unse/mode/1up | title=Motorola '030 sales in jeopardy | magazine=Computerworld | last1=Daly | first1=James | last2=Pastore | first2=Richard | date=2 April 1990 | access-date=2 May 2024 | pages=1,118 }}</ref> One instance of coverage of such rumours that appeared in contemporary print media characterised such rumours as "an amusing tidbit" with the author presciently regarding the rumoured development as unlikely.<ref name="amazingcomputer199011_roomers">{{ cite magazine | url=https://archive.org/details/amazing-computing-magazine-1990-11/page/n60/mode/1up | title=Roomers | magazine=Amazing Computing | last1=Bandito | first1=The | date=November 1990 | access-date=30 April 2024 | pages=59–62 }}</ref>{{rp | pages=60 | quote=Another amusing tidbit that The Bandito has garnered: a hot tip that Commodore and Sun are going to announce an agreeement whereby Commodore would "takeover" the low end of Sun's workstation line — replacing the 68xxx models in Sun's line with Amigas running Unix. In other words, the low-end Sun workstation would really be an Amiga 3000. The Bandito doesn't think it's likely, but stranger things have happened in this business.}}

Other rumours supposedly persisted towards the beginning of 1990 that Hewlett-Packard had been "negotiating to buy Commodore", only to pull out, eliciting later claims of HP workstations with "suspiciously Amiga-like specifications".<ref name="info199103_rumormill">{{ cite magazine | url=https://archive.org/details/info-magazine-37/Info_Issue_37_1991_Mar/page/n17/mode/1up | title=The Rumor Mill | magazine=Info | date=March 1991 | access-date=19 April 2024 | pages=18 }}</ref> Such commentary was evidently oblivious to HP's existing extensive workstation ranges, including Motorola-based systems, and its 1989 acquisition of Apollo Computer in pursuit of workstation market share and application support. Indeed, this acquisition led to a degree of duplication in HP's Motorola-based product ranges in need of careful resolution, but brought with it numerous Apollo developers and customers. Such considerations and benefits would have been largely absent in any hypothetical Commodore acquisition.<ref name="hpprofessional198906_industrywatch">{{ cite magazine | url=https://archive.org/details/HP-Professional_Vol._03_No._06_Jun_1989/page/10/mode/1up | title=Now That HP And Apollo Are No. 1... | magazine=HP Professional | last1=King | first1=Peggy | date=June 1989 | access-date=19 April 2024 | pages=10, 12, 80–82, 84 }}</ref>