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From: mikes@nickel.ucs.indiana.edu (michael squires)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: History of PC-Unices
Date: 12 Mar 1996 04:21:23 GMT
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
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References: <W_MF.96Mar6094546@fawn.unibw-hamburg.de> <4hlv7n$nma@zk2nws.zko.dec.com>
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In article <4hlv7n$nma@zk2nws.zko.dec.com>,
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).
>Then came MS Xenix & IBM Xenix (I don't know in what order)
MS Xenix for Intel was derived from the 68K XENIX sold by Tandy derived
from the UNIX v7 sources obtained by Microsoft apparently for the Apple
Lisa OS (one version, I've seen the header files in the 68K development
system and they quite clearly say "Apple Lisa". Microsoft sold a version
of the OS to Tandy for the 68K add-in CPU for the TRS Model II.
Microsoft sold the OS to SCO and then XENIX 286 and 386 appeared, followed
by SCO UNIX V, an SVID compliant OS based on the v7 sources.
(My BBS system, sir-alan.UUCP, started as a RS 16a in 1985, moved to a 6000
in 1988, and then to a Tandy 4000 under SCO XENIX and later UNIX)
>Interactive Systems developed AIX for IBM
>Interactive Systems also developed Interactive Unix
Also SunOS 4.0 for the Sun 386i under contract
Interactive used AT&T UNIX V as its code base.
(I had a Sun 386i for a few months; a friend was on the hardware team.
>Sun ported SunOS 4.x to the x86.
Sun used Interactive to do the port.
>In 92, Bill Jolitz made 386BSD available to the public.
>NetBSD was the first stable distribution based on 386BSD ('93 ?).
386BSD ran fine on my hardware in 92, but my needs were simple.
--
Michael L. Squires, Ph.D Manager of Instructional Computing, Freshman Office,
Chemistry Department, IU Bloomington, IN 47405 812-855-0852 (o) 81-333-6564 (h)
mikes@indiana.edu, mikes@ucs.indiana.edu, or mikes@nickel.ucs.indiana.edu