From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] What happened with XENIX? (was Re: Unix/World Magazines)
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2020 16:27:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANCZdfqyCH7WfvhAwiW5TFNmbphpLmihOSGfu1kJvLaZkSaA3g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2001081009090.40155@aneurin.horsfall.org>
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On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 4:13 PM Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Jan 2020, reed@reedmedia.net wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > What happened with XENIX? I know it had some success (I used at least
> > one retired system with it), but nothing near the other offerings on the
> > PC family.
>
> I was forced to use Xenix for a contracting job (and hated it, as it was
> almost-but-not-quite-Unix, and the differences annoyed me). Wouldn't
> Linux have arrived at around that time?
>
These mags are from 84 and 85. Linux wasn't really viable until 92 or so.
Warner
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-07 23:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-07 10:56 [TUHS] Unix/World Magazines Warren Toomey
2020-01-07 22:22 ` [TUHS] What happened with XENIX? (was Re: Unix/World Magazines) reed
2020-01-07 23:12 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-07 23:27 ` Warner Losh [this message]
2020-01-07 23:36 ` Adam Thornton
2020-01-08 7:46 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-01-08 12:40 ` Matt Rudge
2020-01-08 16:56 ` Heinz Lycklama
2020-01-08 22:46 ` CHARLES KESTER
2020-01-08 7:46 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-01-08 0:44 ` [TUHS] XENIX and Linux (was: What happened with XENIX? (was Re: Unix/World Magazines)) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-01-08 22:15 ` [TUHS] What happened with XENIX? (was Re: Unix/World Magazines) Dave Horsfall
2020-01-08 23:29 ` Harald Arnesen
2020-01-09 0:01 ` ron
2020-01-09 0:19 ` Heinz Lycklama
2020-01-09 0:19 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-09 3:25 ` David Arnold
2020-01-09 4:56 ` Adam Thornton
2020-01-07 23:21 ` Peter Cetinski
2020-01-08 0:50 ` [TUHS] IBM PC and XENIX (was: What happened with XENIX? (was Re: Unix/World Magazines)) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-01-08 2:58 ` reed
2020-01-08 12:18 ` [TUHS] What happened with XENIX? Michael Kjörling
2020-01-08 21:55 ` [TUHS] Dating quotes (was: What happened with XENIX?) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-01-08 23:48 ` reed
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