The Amiga 3000UX is a model of the Amiga computer family that was released with Amiga Unix, a full port of AT&T

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Release 4 (SVR4), installed along with

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. The system is otherwise equivalent to the standard A3000, once a right-click initiates a boot to Kickstart (Amiga's kernel). At one point, Sun Microsystems approached Commodore-Amiga, Inc. with the offer to produce the A3000UX under license as a low- to mid-range alternative to their high-end Sun

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. The fact that this offer was declined was one of the many management decisions that led to the popular belief that the Amiga platform would have been a real success story were it not for

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management. It is possible that Commodore (or a third party) repurposed A3000UX machines for standard AmigaOS, as some standard A3000 models have been found with labeling suggesting they were originally to be sold as A3000UX machines.

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