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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:637 comp.os.386bsd.misc:762 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!wariat.org!kf8nh!bsa From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) Subject: Re: Why would I want LINUX? References: <252n71$2d4@fnnews.fnal.gov> <hastyCC826F.MHH@netcom.com> <CC9F8J.Fvo@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> <25d4tg$3d5@email.tuwien.ac.at> Organization: Brandon's Linux box and AmPR node, Mentor, OH Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1993 22:55:41 GMT Message-ID: <1993Aug24.225541.9009@kf8nh.wariat.org> Lines: 20 In article <25d4tg$3d5@email.tuwien.ac.at> hp@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Peter Holzer) writes: >peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >>In article <hastyCC826F.MHH@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes: >>> How long did it take Microsoft to address the functionality provided >>> by Unix-like system? > >>They haven't yet. > >Actually, they did. Before they adapted MS-DOS to the IBM-PC, they >ported Unix (System III?) to a (non IBM) 8086 box and called it Xenix. >Later they ported it to IBM-clones as well. Xenix 1.x was a Version 7 kernel. Come to think of it, "Xenix System V" *still* behaves an awful lot like a heavily-hacked Version 7.... ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery kf8nh@kf8nh.ampr.org bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org "MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years of careful development." ---dmeggins@aix1.uottawa.ca