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From: kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: History of PC-Unices
Date: 7 Mar 1996 17:15:59 GMT
Organization: Applied Phyics Lab
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References: <W_MF.96Mar6094546@fawn.unibw-hamburg.de> <4hlv7n$nma@zk2nws.zko.dec.com>
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Ranjit Mathews USG wrote in article <4hlv7n$nma@zk2nws.zko.dec.com> :
>
>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)
>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.
>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).
>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.
>NetBSD was the first stable distribution based on 386BSD ('93 ?).
>386BSD with (numerous) selected patches became FreeBSD ('94 ?).
>
Nice summary, but I think you have the NetBSD and 386BSD entires a little
messed up.
1992, Jolitz released 386BSD to the public
92-9[34], 3386BSD + patchkit 1, 2, 3, and 4
94, NetBSD and FreeBSD split.
I don't recall which came first: FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 or NetBSD 0.9.
Other OS that might fit into the history include Minix and Coherent.
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