From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Nov 11 21:46:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADC2E37B479 for ; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 21:46:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id eAC5jZd02678; Sun, 12 Nov 2000 16:15:35 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 16:15:35 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Heredity Choice Cc: Terry Lambert , Chris Fuhrman , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft Source (fwd) Message-ID: <20001112161535.K802@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20001111191459.H4535@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> <001b01c04c66$e8320020$6cc6ddd1@STORK> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <001b01c04c66$e8320020$6cc6ddd1@STORK>; from stork@qnet.com on Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 09:10:43PM -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 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