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Date:      Tue, 7 Aug 2001 16:24:24 -0600 (MDT)
From:      John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>, chat list <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: How did the MSFT monopoly start?
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108071610020.14442-100000@inconnu.isu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010807155426.0485aab0@localhost>

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On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Brett Glass wrote:

>At 03:43 PM 8/7/2001, Brad Knowles wrote:
>
>>        Surely a free version of Unix based on BSD would not have been "expensive".
>
>The only alternative at that point might have been, ironically,
>Microsoft Zenix. Which the PC, lacking an MMU, couldn't support.

You had us all going, right up to the point of you misspelling "Xenix".
Nobody using a computer at the time would've forgotten Xenix: it worked
splendidly on such greats as the PC/XT and the TRS-80 mod16 (neither of
which had a MMU...).

http://www.unicom.com/pw/sco-xenix


>--Brett
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