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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
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References: <W_MF.96Mar6094546@fawn.unibw-hamburg.de> <4hlv7n$nma@zk2nws.zko.dec.com>
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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.
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