Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 16:24:24 -0600 (MDT) From: John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>, chat list <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How did the MSFT monopoly start? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108071610020.14442-100000@inconnu.isu.edu> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010807155426.0485aab0@localhost>
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On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Brett Glass wrote: >At 03:43 PM 8/7/2001, Brad Knowles wrote: > >> Surely a free version of Unix based on BSD would not have been "expensive". > >The only alternative at that point might have been, ironically, >Microsoft Zenix. Which the PC, lacking an MMU, couldn't support. You had us all going, right up to the point of you misspelling "Xenix". Nobody using a computer at the time would've forgotten Xenix: it worked splendidly on such greats as the PC/XT and the TRS-80 mod16 (neither of which had a MMU...). http://www.unicom.com/pw/sco-xenix >--Brett > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > -- There is no problem so great that it cannot be solved with suitable application of High Explosives. Who is John Galt? galt@inconnu.isu.edu, that's who! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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