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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:1065 comp.os.386bsd.misc:813 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!pipex!ibmpcug!ibmpcug!jshark!joe From: joe@jshark.inet-uk.co.uk (Joe Sharkey) Subject: Re: Why would I want LINUX? Organization: Individual Network (UK) Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 21:51:07 GMT Message-ID: <CCLE18.ov@jshark.inet-uk.co.uk> References: <CC9F8J.Fvo@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> <25d4tg$3d5@email.tuwien.ac.at> <1993Aug29.192545.6570@ksmith.com> Lines: 36 In article <1993Aug29.192545.6570@ksmith.com> keith@ksmith.com (Keith Smith) writes: >In article <25d4tg$3d5@email.tuwien.ac.at> hp@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Peter Holzer) writes: >>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. Yes, but really actually, in time-order(?) Microsoft ported UNIX System III to a (non IBM) 8086 box called a PDP-11 and called it Xenix. Not a lot of room left on an RL-02, and you really wanted split I/D. Didn't Microsoft also port to VAX, Fortune, Altos.. ??? >Actually they never quite got this to work correctly, so a couple of >Hippie Computer guru's in Santa Cruz, CA got together and bought into >Xenix with exclusive distribution rights, and worked all the bugs out of >the Microsoft code. Can you say SCO? Fixing bugs isn't porting, valuable and skilled as it is. >Keith Smith joe. -- Joe Sharkey joe@jshark.inet-uk.co.uk ...!uunet!ibmpcug!jshark!joe 150 Hatfield Rd, St Albans, Herts AL1 4JA, UK Got a real domain name (+44) 727 838662 Mail/News Feeds (v32/v32bis): info@inet-uk.co.uk