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From: danh@qnx.com (Dan Hildebrand)
Subject: Re: History of PC-Unices
Message-ID: <0lgn2p1p@qnx.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 96 13:28:26 GMT
Organization: QNX Software Systems
References: <W_MF.96Mar6094546@fawn.unibw-hamburg.de> <4hlv7n$nma@zk2nws.zko.dec.com> <4hnf3b$2rh@orca.osg.gov.bc.ca>
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In article <4hnf3b$2rh@orca.osg.gov.bc.ca>,
Cy Schubert - BCSC Open Systems Group <cschuber@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> wrote:
>Ranjit Mathews USG (ranjit@fwasted.zk3.dec.com) wrote:
>> This is the best I can do:
>
>> PC/ix, I believe, was the first Unix for x86 computers (in '83 or so).
>
>I believe that QNX came out in '84 or '85.
QNX came out in 1982, and was the first commercial microkernel for the
PC. Of course, it looks a little different today than it did then. :-)
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http://www.qnx.com/~danh 175 Terence Matthews
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