From: pnr@planet.nl (Paul Ruizendaal)
Subject: [TUHS] What UNIX Artifacts Are Still Missing?
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 20:27:57 +0100 [thread overview]
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> On 6 Dec 2017, at 18:13, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 9:33 AM, Paul Ruizendaal <pnr at planet.nl> wrote:
> Although Xenix predates Venix, I'm not sure it predates it on PC hardware.
> It really depends how you count. I was there at time when AT&T was negotiating the replacement for the V7 license with 10 of us (the 10 firms included Microsoft - the only time I can say I was in the room with Willy G. - but that's another story). This work would become the System III license.
>
> Xenix, which was V7 based originally, was target for the generic 8086 systems (as well as PDP-11, 68K and Z8000) but the Intel support was generic so it included the PC.
[...]
Yes, you are correct: In november 1981 Xenix ran on the Altos 8600. Once you run on one 8086 machine, the next is minor step.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altos_Computer_Systems#ACS_8600
Your insights about licensing match with the chart on the ‘seefigure1’ website, and help explain some things about it.
Paul
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2017-12-06 11:25 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2017-12-06 12:58 ` Mutiny
2017-12-06 14:33 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2017-12-06 17:13 ` Clem Cole
2017-12-06 19:27 ` Paul Ruizendaal [this message]
2017-12-07 6:14 ` Jason Stevens
2017-12-06 22:32 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-07 5:05 ` Jason Stevens
2017-12-07 5:46 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-07 5:40 ` Andy Kosela
2017-12-07 5:56 ` Robert Brockway
2017-12-07 6:07 ` Warner Losh
2017-12-07 17:47 ` Grant Taylor
2017-12-09 6:03 ` Nigel Williams
2017-12-07 6:14 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-12-07 7:02 ` Robert Brockway
2017-12-07 16:22 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-12-07 14:59 ` Larry McVoy
2017-12-07 15:40 ` Steve Simon
2017-12-07 15:42 ` Chet Ramey
2017-12-07 16:28 ` Clem Cole
2017-12-07 16:30 ` Clem Cole
2017-12-06 17:55 ` Warner Losh
2017-12-07 15:14 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-07 15:36 ` Nevin Liber
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2017-12-06 17:59 Rudi Blom
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2017-12-06 11:22 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2017-12-05 22:45 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2017-12-05 22:21 Warren Toomey
2017-12-05 22:38 ` Robert Swierczek
2017-12-05 22:55 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2017-12-05 23:06 ` Warner Losh
2017-12-05 23:03 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-06 0:00 ` Robert Swierczek
2017-12-06 0:08 ` Grant Taylor
2017-12-06 15:23 ` Clem Cole
2017-12-06 5:54 ` arnold
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