Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 19:07:27 +0800 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Heredity Choice <stork@QNET.COM> Cc: scanner@jurai.net, Joe Warner <jswarner@uswest.net>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>, chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Microsoft Source (fwd) Message-ID: <20001111190727.G4535@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <000101c04837$05f07620$66c6ddd1@STORK>; from stork@QNET.COM on Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 01:17:52PM -0800 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011052026350.99664-100000@sasami.jurai.net> <000101c04837$05f07620$66c6ddd1@STORK>
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On Monday, 6 November 2000 at 13:17:52 -0800, Heredity Choice wrote: > On Sunday, 05 November, 2000 17:28 PM, scanner@jurai.net wrote: >> On Sun, 5 Nov 2000, Joe Warner wrote: >> >>> Yeah, I've already seen this one. Dru Lavigne posted >>> this one a while back. It's pretty funny! 8^) >>> >>> Maybe it was just a rumor. Microsoft doesn't really >>> have any plans to create a Linux/UNIX variant... >>> ....or do they? <shudder> 8^P >> >> >> They did once already. It was called XENIX. >> If they still have it, they could dust it off, slap in a linux kernel and >> call it MS linux. > > Xenix was Microsoft's 16-bit UNIX developed to run on the IBM PC family. It > was a real UNIX, multiuser and multitasking and a different ballgame from > DOS. It was the first UNIX-derived OS to run on the PC platform and paved > the way for FreeBSD. Microsoft sold Xenix to SCO. Hmm. IIRC they did it in cooperation. > The advent of the 32-bit I386 made Xenix obsolescent. No, there are 32 bit versions of XENIX. I did some serious work on a thing called XENIX System V in the 1992-1994 timeframe, running on i386s. The main issue was that they didn't go beyond 16 MB (some strange memory model, I suppose), IP performance was abysmal, and they didn't do X or NFS. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key 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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