Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 13:17:52 -0800 From: "Heredity Choice" <stork@QNET.COM> To: <scanner@jurai.net>, "Joe Warner" <jswarner@uswest.net> Cc: "Alfred Perlstein" <bright@wintelcom.net>, "Kris Kennaway" <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Microsoft Source (fwd) Message-ID: <000101c04837$05f07620$66c6ddd1@STORK> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011052026350.99664-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
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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. The advent of the 32-bit I386 made Xenix obsolescent. Paul Smith > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of scanner@jurai.net > Sent: Sunday, 05 November, 2000 17:28 PM > To: Joe Warner > Cc: Alfred Perlstein; Kris Kennaway; chat@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Microsoft Source (fwd) > > > 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. > > ================================================================== > =========== > -Chris Watson (316) 326-3862 | FreeBSD Consultant, FreeBSD Geek > Work: scanner@jurai.net | Open Systems Inc., > Wellington, Kansas > Home: scanner@deceptively.shady.org | http://open-systems.net > ================================================================== > =========== > WINDOWS: "Where do you want to go today?" > LINUX: "Where do you want to go tommorow?" > BSD: "Are you guys coming or what?" > ================================================================== > =========== > irc.openprojects.net #FreeBSD -Join the revolution! > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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