From: bill@cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon)
Subject: [pups] Bob's emulator and ultrix
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 10:36:28 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4471.134.198.172.102.1145457388.squirrel@www.cs.scranton.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1145447140.10479.2.camel@morden.cc.vt.edu>
> On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 01:42 +0000, Charlie ROOT wrote:
>> By the way, are there releases of Xenix that run on PDP-hardware?
>> I've only ever heard of PC (8086+)-based ones.
>
> In my memory, it seems that Xenix was originally done for the Motorola
> 68000 then ported to the Intel x86 architecture. The first real "Unix"
> I ever ran, by the way, was Microsoft Xenix on a Motorola 68000 based
> Tandy 6000. I do not believe that Xenix *ever* ran on PDP based
> hardware.
My 1985 PDP11 Software Sourcebook lists XENIX for the PDP11 as
being available from SCO. It also lists Venix as available for
other than just the Pro.
bill
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-19 14:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-19 0:46 [TUHS] " Warren Toomey
2006-04-19 1:42 ` Charlie ROOT
2006-04-19 5:56 ` [pups] " Toby Thain
2006-04-19 6:07 ` [TUHS] [pups] " Ian King
2006-04-19 11:45 ` Christopher McNabb
2006-04-19 14:36 ` Bill Gunshannon [this message]
2006-04-19 4:10 ` Carl Lowenstein
2006-04-19 22:36 ` Tore S Bekkedal
2006-04-19 23:05 ` Bill Cunningham
2006-04-21 3:37 ` Kelli Halliburton
2006-04-21 7:43 ` Tim Bradshaw
[not found] <mailman.5.1145412001.42991.pups@minnie.tuhs.org>
2006-04-19 8:44 ` Rico Pajarola
2006-04-19 9:10 ` Tim Bradshaw
2006-04-19 13:24 ` Toby Thain
2006-04-19 13:26 ` Toby Thain
2006-04-19 14:17 ` Rico Pajarola
2006-04-19 22:59 ` Tore S Bekkedal
2006-04-20 6:18 ` Rico Pajarola
2006-04-19 12:51 ` Milo Velimirovic
2006-04-19 22:47 ` Tore S Bekkedal
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