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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

             reply	other threads:[~2021-04-06 15:36 UTC|newest]

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
2021-04-10 18:12 Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS

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