From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 4bd739b1 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2020 00:50:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 419969BCD2; Wed, 8 Jan 2020 10:50:41 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31EF59BCA9; Wed, 8 Jan 2020 10:50:12 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 885349BCA9; Wed, 8 Jan 2020 10:50:08 +1000 (AEST) X-Greylist: delayed 331 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at minnie.tuhs.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2020 10:50:07 AEST Received: from lax.lemis.com (www.lemis.com [45.32.70.18]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E05C945FC for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2020 10:50:07 +1000 (AEST) Received: from eureka.lemis.com (167-179-139-35.a7b38b.mel.nbn.aussiebb.net [167.179.139.35]) by lax.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE6BB2815F; Wed, 8 Jan 2020 00:50:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eureka.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 354CB26358F; Wed, 8 Jan 2020 11:50:06 +1100 (AEDT) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 11:50:06 +1100 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: reed@reedmedia.net Message-ID: <20200108005006.GL64020@eureka.lemis.com> References: <20200107105615.GA16081@minnie.tuhs.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="KjSGHOmKKB2VUiQn" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: LEMIS, 29 Stones Road, Dereel, VIC, Australia Phone: +61-3-5309-0418 Mobile: +61-490-494-038. Use only as instructed. WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) Subject: [TUHS] IBM PC and XENIX (was: What happened with XENIX? (was Re: Unix/World Magazines)) X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" --KjSGHOmKKB2VUiQn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday, 7 January 2020 at 16:22:41 -0600, reed@reedmedia.net wrote: > On Tue, 7 Jan 2020, Warren Toomey wrote: > >> All, I've uploaded 13 Unix/World magazines from 1984-85 to archive.org. > > Thanks! > > November 1985 issue has an article by Bill Gates. > > Gates wrote that they were optimistic to achieve 400,000 XENIX > installations -- their critical mass -- within 18 months. > > "... IBM has announced XENIX as the multi-user operating sysytem for the > IBM PC-AT." XENIX was initially targeted for the PDP-11, for some reason beyond my understanding. Looking at the Wikipedia page, it seems that the first Intel ports were not aimed at the PC-AT. > "Significantly, at the time the XENIX project was started [mid 1980], > the IBM Personal Computer had not been announced." You don't say where this quote comes from. The use of pluperfect suggests that it's not from the Unix/World article. The PC was announced in August 1981, and the PC-AT was released in August 1984, so the date of the article fits well. Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA --KjSGHOmKKB2VUiQn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEARECAAYFAl4VJz4ACgkQIubykFB6QiP7LgCfYr+K2yPdTo9rM58Q3sIkP7Fm chIAn0VeEFXm3M3gTp1ZnrdtrdPiiOfG =apqj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --KjSGHOmKKB2VUiQn--