Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 16:15:35 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Heredity Choice <stork@qnet.com> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Chris Fuhrman <cfuhrman@tfcci.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft Source (fwd) Message-ID: <20001112161535.K802@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <001b01c04c66$e8320020$6cc6ddd1@STORK>; from stork@qnet.com on Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 09:10:43PM -0800 References: <20001111191459.H4535@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> <001b01c04c66$e8320020$6cc6ddd1@STORK>
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On Saturday, 11 November 2000 at 21:10:43 -0800, Heredity Choice wrote: > >>> and Microsoft was actually running a large chunk of their language >>> engineering on Xenix on Sun machines, as late as 1988 (I got a call >>> from a Microsoft employee wanting to buy a copy of our >>> communications software for Xenix running on Sun hardware; when I >>> said "What?!?", he said "Oh, that's right, it's an internal product >>> only". Originally, Xenix only ran on 68000 hardware. >> >> Do you have any evidence for this? Admittedly, there was 68000 >> hardware at the time, but it was very early, and there's no obvious >> reason why Microsoft (which was definitely in charge of XENIX) would >> have bothered to port to an architecture they didn't plan to use, >> especially since it was big-endian and 32 bit, whereas both the PDP-11 >> and i86 were little-endian and 16 bit. I'd suspect that you're >> extrapolating here. > > I have seen Xenix on a Radioshack computer which had the 68000 > processor. I didn't know that Radio Shack ever built 68000 based machines. What was it called? When was this? 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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