From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Nov 11 13:11:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (sydney.worldwide.lemis.com [192.109.197.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C858A37B479; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 13:11:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id eABB7RE04949; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 19:07:27 +0800 (SGT) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 19:07:27 +0800 From: Greg Lehey To: Heredity Choice Cc: scanner@jurai.net, Joe Warner , Alfred Perlstein , Kris Kennaway , chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Microsoft Source (fwd) Message-ID: <20001111190727.G4535@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> References: <000101c04837$05f07620$66c6ddd1@STORK> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <000101c04837$05f07620$66c6ddd1@STORK>; from stork@QNET.COM on Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 01:17:52PM -0800 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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? 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