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 84ec2e9b for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2020 12:24:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 49A769BCD3; Wed, 8 Jan 2020 22:24:55 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F2FC9BCA9; Wed, 8 Jan 2020 22:24:25 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id A1B409BCA9; Wed, 8 Jan 2020 22:24:22 +1000 (AEST) X-Greylist: delayed 375 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at minnie.tuhs.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2020 22:24:21 AEST Received: from pio-pvt-msa1.bahnhof.se (pio-pvt-msa1.bahnhof.se [79.136.2.40]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F194D945FC for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2020 22:24:21 +1000 (AEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pio-pvt-msa1.bahnhof.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA7D03F522 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2020 13:18:04 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at bahnhof.se Received: from pio-pvt-msa1.bahnhof.se ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pio-pvt-msa1.bahnhof.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id xruj48De5Yna for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2020 13:18:03 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (unknown [94.254.51.202]) (Authenticated sender: mc616801) by pio-pvt-msa1.bahnhof.se (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 76D2C3F4E0 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2020 13:18:03 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C0BD22E02D8 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2020 13:18:02 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 12:18:01 +0000 From: Michael =?utf-8?B?S2rDtnJsaW5n?= To: tuhs@tuhs.org Message-ID: <7zxjn49rcpnbpgv7zbq4rxgv@localhost> References: <20200107105615.GA16081@minnie.tuhs.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [TUHS] What happened with XENIX? 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: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" 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?”