Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 21:10:43 -0800 From: "Heredity Choice" <stork@QNET.COM> To: "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com>, "Terry Lambert" <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: "Chris Fuhrman" <cfuhrman@tfcci.com>, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Microsoft Source (fwd) Message-ID: <001b01c04c66$e8320020$6cc6ddd1@STORK> In-Reply-To: <20001111191459.H4535@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com>
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> > 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. Paul Smith To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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