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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:832 comp.os.386bsd.misc:787 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!ksmith!keith From: keith@ksmith.com (Keith Smith) Subject: Re: Why would I want LINUX? Organization: Keith's Computer, Hope Mills, NC Date: Sun, 29 Aug 93 19:25:45 GMT Message-ID: <1993Aug29.192545.6570@ksmith.com> References: <hastyCC826F.MHH@netcom.com> <CC9F8J.Fvo@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> <25d4tg$3d5@email.tuwien.ac.at> Lines: 21 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. Actually they never quite got this to work correctly, so a couple of Hippie Computer guru's in Santa Cruz, CA got together and bought into Xenix with exclusive distribution rights, and worked all the bugs out of the Microsoft code. Can you say SCO? -- Keith Smith keith@ksmith.com 5719 Archer Rd. Digital Designs BBS 1-919-423-4216 Hope Mills, NC 28348-2201 Somewhere in the Styx of North Carolina ...