Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 15:58:09 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, 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: <20010808155809.P78395@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108071610020.14442-100000@inconnu.isu.edu>; from galt@inconnu.isu.edu on Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 04:24:24PM -0600 References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010807155426.0485aab0@localhost> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108071610020.14442-100000@inconnu.isu.edu>
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On Tuesday, 7 August 2001 at 16:24:24 -0600, John Galt wrote: > 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...). The MMU wasn't the issue. The original PC came with 16 kB memory standard, and no hard disk. Particularly the latter was the issue. When the PC/XT came out, IBM brought out its own UNIX, PC/IX, a System III implementation. It required 256 kB memory. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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