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Unlike Apple's A / UX, Amiga Unix contained no compatibility layer to allow AmigaOS applications to run under Unix.

With few native applications available to take advantage of the Amiga's significant multimedia capabilities, it failed to find a niche in the quite-competitive Unix workstation market of the early 1990s.

The A3000UX's price tag of approximately $ 7, 000 was also not very attractive compared to other Unix workstations at the time, such as the NeXTstation ($ 5, 000 for a base system, with a full API and many times the number of applications available ), the SGI Indigo ( starting at $ 8, 000 ), or the Personal DECstation 5000 Model 25 ( starting at $ 5, 000 ).

Sun, HP, and IBM had similarly priced systems.

The A3000UX's 68030 was noticeably underpowered compared to most of its RISC-based competitors.