From: "Michael Kjörling" <michael@kjorling.se>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] What happened with XENIX?
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 12:18:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7zxjn49rcpnbpgv7zbq4rxgv@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.NEB.2.21.2001071617230.50@t1.m.reedmedia.net>
On 7 Jan 2020 16:22 -0600, from reed@reedmedia.net:
> "Significantly, at the time the XENIX project was started [mid 1980],
> the IBM Personal Computer had not been announced."
Perhaps even more significantly in this case, but possibly not
publicly known at the time, IBM's Project Chess, which resulted in the
IBM PC, apparently began in July 1980. (The promise was to develop an
initial prototype in 30 days, and a working personal computer in a
year; the initial demo was in August, the first internal demo in
January 1981, and product release was in August 1981.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer#Project_Chess
So by "mid 1980", what would eventually lead up to the IBM PC was at
most _just barely_ getting started.
--
Michael Kjörling • https://michael.kjorling.se • michael@kjorling.se
“Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-07 10:56 [TUHS] Unix/World Magazines Warren Toomey
2020-01-07 22:22 ` [TUHS] What happened with XENIX? (was Re: Unix/World Magazines) reed
2020-01-07 23:12 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-07 23:27 ` Warner Losh
2020-01-07 23:36 ` Adam Thornton
2020-01-08 7:46 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-01-08 12:40 ` Matt Rudge
2020-01-08 16:56 ` Heinz Lycklama
2020-01-08 22:46 ` CHARLES KESTER
2020-01-08 7:46 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-01-08 0:44 ` [TUHS] XENIX and Linux (was: What happened with XENIX? (was Re: Unix/World Magazines)) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-01-08 22:15 ` [TUHS] What happened with XENIX? (was Re: Unix/World Magazines) Dave Horsfall
2020-01-08 23:29 ` Harald Arnesen
2020-01-09 0:01 ` ron
2020-01-09 0:19 ` Heinz Lycklama
2020-01-09 0:19 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-09 3:25 ` David Arnold
2020-01-09 4:56 ` Adam Thornton
2020-01-07 23:21 ` Peter Cetinski
2020-01-08 0:50 ` [TUHS] IBM PC and XENIX (was: What happened with XENIX? (was Re: Unix/World Magazines)) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-01-08 2:58 ` reed
2020-01-08 12:18 ` Michael Kjörling [this message]
2020-01-08 21:55 ` [TUHS] Dating quotes (was: What happened with XENIX?) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-01-08 23:48 ` reed
2020-01-08 9:18 [TUHS] What happened with XENIX? Paul Ruizendaal
2020-01-08 12:46 ` Ronald Natalie
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