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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:1019 comp.os.386bsd.misc:811 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!manlobbi.UUCP!knobel!andreas From: andreas@knobel.knirsch.de (Andreas Klemm) 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> <1993Aug24.225541.9009@kf8nh.wariat.org> Organization: Andreas Klemm, 41469 Neuss, Germany Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1993 12:38:04 GMT Message-ID: <1993Aug31.123804.478@knobel.knirsch.de> Lines: 35 bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) writes: >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.... That was the first Unix OS I saw 12 years ago: 8086 Microsoft Xenix. On an original IBM AT 286 with 6 MHz and 512 KB RAM and an originally 20 MB IBM harddisk. 10 MB DOS, 10 MB Xenix ... and we didn't get rogue compiled with it ;-) There were 2 Xenix versions available for PC's one from MS and one from SCO. SCO later offered 80286 versions...laster 80386 versions, where only 20% of the programs were 80386 code, the rest still remained 80286 and 8086 code (games, dwb, ...). SCO Xenix / Unix was a beast ..... The microsoft C-Compiler was a shame for C Compiler ... Years later I got an Xenix System V. I remember situations where the compiler complains about "structure too complicate, please simplify ..." -- /-\ Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.knirsch.de> +-----------------+ |@|########################################################-@ "pay for it !" | \-/ 41469 Neuss Germany phone +49/ 2137 12609 +-----------------+