From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: akosela@andykosela.com (Andy Kosela) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 23:40:56 -0600 Subject: [TUHS] What UNIX Artifacts Are Still Missing? In-Reply-To: References: <1512559547.S.4343.377.f5-147-236.1512565117.28135@webmail.rediffmail.com> Message-ID: On Wednesday, December 6, 2017, Dave Horsfall wrote: > On Wed, 6 Dec 2017, Paul Ruizendaal wrote: > > That is a good point: early Xenix is still missing. It would make an >> excellent public relations move for Microsoft if they would make early >> Xenix available to celebrate 50 years of Unix. >> > > Call me a cynical old bastard (which I am), but I can't see M$ raising a > flag for Unix... Wasn't it Billy Gates who reportedly said that any PC > running Linux is one not running Windoze, and did his best to discredit it? > > I still have horrible memories of porting Unify (an early RDBMS) to Xenix, > and getting tangled up in the poxy small/large memory models on the > equally-poxy 286 (no, not the 386). > > I can understand no love for Xenix on this list, but actually M$ is part of the UNIX history and was actually quite successful with Xenix[1]. In the late 80s there were more computers running M$ Xenix than all other versions of UNIX combined. Some good history here: http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Torvalds/Finland_period/xenix_microsoft_shortlived_love_affair_with_unix.shtml --Andy [1] https://books.google.com/books?id=UE1HODexHKoC&pg=PA44#v=onepage&q&f=false -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: