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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:618 comp.os.386bsd.misc:756 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!gatech!paladin.american.edu!news.univie.ac.at!email.tuwien.ac.at!hp From: hp@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Peter Holzer) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Why would I want LINUX? Date: 24 Aug 1993 13:26:08 GMT Organization: Technical University, Vienna, Dept. for Realtime Systems, AUSTRIA Lines: 22 Message-ID: <25d4tg$3d5@email.tuwien.ac.at> References: <252n71$2d4@fnnews.fnal.gov> <25aq81$abf@umd5.umd.edu> <hastyCC826F.MHH@netcom.com> <CC9F8J.Fvo@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> NNTP-Posting-Host: quasi.vmars.tuwien.ac.at 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. __ Peter Holzer <hp@vmars.tuwien.ac.at> TU Wien, Real-time systems It that was long ago and it was far away, And it was so much better than it is today (Meat Loaf: Paradise by the dashboard light) -- | _ | Peter J. Holzer | Think of it | | |_|_) | Technical University Vienna | as evolution | | | | | Computer Science/Real-Time Systems | in action! | | __/ | hp@vmars.tuwien.ac.at | Tony Rand |