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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!uhog.mit.edu!uw-beaver!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!cs.ubc.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!orca.osg.gov.bc.ca!passer.osg.gov.bc.ca!cschuber From: cschuber@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (Cy Schubert - BCSC Open Systems Group) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: History of PC-Unices Date: 7 Mar 1996 19:57:31 GMT Organization: BC Systems Lines: 65 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4hnf3b$2rh@orca.osg.gov.bc.ca> References: <W_MF.96Mar6094546@fawn.unibw-hamburg.de> <4hlv7n$nma@zk2nws.zko.dec.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: passer.osg.gov.bc.ca X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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. > Then came MS Xenix & IBM Xenix (I don't know in what order) > SCO used MS Xenix as the base for SCO Xenix > Interactive Systems developed AIX for IBM > Interactive Systems also developed Interactive Unix > AT&T used Interactive Unix as a base and merged Xenix compatibility into it, > releasing SysV R3 in July '87 > X86 Sys V R3 was first available to the public from Microport in late '87. > Interactive Systems followed in 1988. > Everex sold Sys V R3 as Esix. Many others sold it under other names. Minix, Linux, and Coherent 286 came out around '90 or '91. > Sun ported SunOS 4.x to the x86. > SCO Unix was introduced in late '88/early '89. They continued selling Xenix. > Solaris was ported to the X86 by Interactive Systems (now owned by Sun). I remember receiving a letter in the early 90's from UCB about BSD386 which later became BSDI and 386BSD. Dell Unix fits in here somehere as well. > In 92/93, Novell bought Unix System Labs and sold Unix Sys V R 4 with Netware > client functionality as UnixWare. > In 92, Bill Jolitz made 386BSD available to the public. Coherent 386 first was sold in 1993. Novell markets SVR4 as Univell. > NetBSD was the first stable distribution based on 386BSD ('93 ?). > 386BSD with (numerous) selected patches became FreeBSD ('94 ?). OpenBSD a drivavtie of NetBSD. > In article <W_MF.96Mar6094546@fawn.unibw-hamburg.de>, w_mf@fawn.unibw-hamburg.de (Fred Hantelmann) writes: > |> Can anyone help me to find out when version xx of product yy was released? > |> As i know (from unix-faq-6) following PC-Unices (80x86) are or have > |> been in the market: > |> > |> AIX 1.x (386 PS/2, IBM), 386BSD, BSD/386 (BSDI), Esix, Eurix, > |> FreeBSD, Generics UNIX, Interactive SVR3.2, NetBSD, PC-IX,, SCO Unix, > |> SCO Xenix, Solaris, SunOS, UHC, UnixWare, Xenix > |> > |> Who was first, second, ...? > |> I'm looking for pointers on that subject for compiling a graphical > |> slide with some textual explanations on PC-Unices. > |> Please reply via E-Mail to w_mf@unibw-hamburg.de > |> Any help will be appreciated. > |> fred. Regards, Phone: (604)389-3827 Cy Schubert OV/VM: BCSC02(CSCHUBER) Open Systems Support BITNET: CSCHUBER@BCSC02.BITNET BC Systems Corp. Internet: cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca cschuber@bcsc02.gov.bc.ca "Quit spooling around, JES do it."