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[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 08:28 +0800, Chris Jeffries wrote:
> 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)

Interactive Systems also had a Unix version running on 80286 hardware.
I even played with a version which ran on 8086 hardware in 1984.
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