phantom files

Chris Jeffries chris at candm.org.uk
Fri Sep 12 00:28:27 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 20:17 +0100, ubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com
wrote:
>             Yes I know but the first try to make a Unix that would
>         work with a 
>         386 CPU was done with what we call Linux early in the 1990's.
>         Linux is 
>         quite well developed in 2008.
>         
Not so - Altos Xenix 1982 - Though I think that pre-dated the 386 and
ran on a 286. SCO Unix was not so far behind in 1983. The 386 chip came
out in 1985 and appeared first in Compaq PCs in 1986 (source Wikipedia -
but is consistent with my own memory)







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