From: M Douglas McIlroy <m.douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>
To: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] PC Unix (had been How to Kill a Technical Conference
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2021 11:35:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKH6PiWZz38CvgztHLy4-4kkeS-Ci7p1zz5c76aZ6AFv_tvYcw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
> I wonder. IBM introduced the IBM PC in August of 1981.
> That was years after a non-memory managed version of
> Unix was created by Heinze Lycklama, LSX. Is anyone
> on this list familiar with Bell Labs management thoughts
> on selling IBM on LSX rather than "dos"?
IBM famously failed to buy the well-established CP/M in
1980. (CP/M had been introduced in 1974, before the
advent of the LSI-11 on which LSX ran.) By then IBM had
settled on Basic and Intel. I do not believe they ever
considered Unix and DEC, nor that AT&T considered
selling to IBM. (AT&T had--fortunately--long since been
rebuffed in an attempt to sell to DEC.)
Doug
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Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-06 15:35 M Douglas McIlroy [this message]
2021-04-06 17:09 ` Clem Cole
2021-04-06 17:32 ` Charles H Sauer
2021-04-06 20:11 ` Josh Good
2021-04-06 20:26 ` Jim Capp
2021-04-06 20:47 ` Charles H Sauer
2021-04-07 16:42 ` Josh Good
2021-04-07 18:04 ` Charles H. Sauer
2021-04-07 2:49 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-04-07 6:04 ` arnold
2021-04-07 16:01 ` heinz
2021-04-06 21:06 ` Clem Cole
2021-04-07 0:58 ` heinz
2021-04-07 1:37 ` Warner Losh
2021-04-07 3:38 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-04-07 2:30 ` Ed Bradford
2021-04-07 2:44 ` Charles H. Sauer
2021-04-06 20:20 ` Boyd Lynn Gerber
2021-04-06 22:41 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-04-07 1:10 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-04-07 1:47 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-04-07 1:49 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-04-07 1:58 ` Larry McVoy
2021-04-07 2:31 ` Serge Burjak
2021-04-09 21:24 ` Michael Parson
2021-04-10 3:33 ` Ed Bradford
2021-04-10 15:12 ` Clem Cole
2021-04-10 15:41 ` Larry McVoy
2021-04-07 0:59 Jason Stevens
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