From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Aug 7 15:24:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from inconnu.isu.edu (inconnu.isu.edu [134.50.8.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23B0B37B403 for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 15:24:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from galt@inconnu.isu.edu) Received: from localhost (galt@localhost) by inconnu.isu.edu (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f77MOOj16799; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 16:24:24 -0600 Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 16:24:24 -0600 (MDT) From: John Galt To: Brett Glass Cc: Brad Knowles , Bob Willcox , chat list Subject: Re: How did the MSFT monopoly start? In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010807155426.0485aab0@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > -- There is no problem so great that it cannot be solved with suitable application of High Explosives. Who is John Galt? galt@inconnu.isu.edu, that's who! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message