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From: joe@jshark.inet-uk.co.uk (Joe Sharkey)
Subject: Re: Why would I want LINUX?
Organization: Individual Network (UK)
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 21:51:07 GMT
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References: <CC9F8J.Fvo@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> <25d4tg$3d5@email.tuwien.ac.at> <1993Aug29.192545.6570@ksmith.com>
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In article <1993Aug29.192545.6570@ksmith.com> keith@ksmith.com (Keith Smith) 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.

Yes, but really actually, in time-order(?)

Microsoft ported UNIX System III to a (non IBM) 8086 box called a PDP-11
and called it Xenix.   Not a lot of room left on an RL-02, and you really
wanted split I/D.

Didn't Microsoft also port to VAX, Fortune, Altos..  ???

>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?

Fixing bugs isn't porting, valuable and skilled as it is.

>Keith Smith

joe.
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