phantom files

[Mark Haney]

Florian Diesch wrote:
> "Mark Haney" <mhaney at ercbroadband.org> wrote:
> 
>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>> .
>>>     Mark I am tired of you making every effort to find something to 
>>> correct that I said. Yes I know about MINNIX and it was VERY Expensive. 
>>> Way out of my price range and it really didn't use the 88386 chip. It 
>>> did some strange things.
>> I'm not making any effort.  It's not like I have time to correct you, 
>> but someone needs to.  If you don't know anything about what you're 
>> talking about, then DON'T.  AFAIK, MINIX wasn't particularly expensive, 
>> but it was also a /research/ OS and not for general use.  
> 
> Minix is a Unix-like OS for educational purpose made by Andrew
> S. Tanenbaum.
> 
> When Linux was invented there were at least three commercial Unices
> for i386 (SCO Unix, Scenix and Xenix), and 386BSD was in development.
> 
> 
> 
>    Florian

Yeah, you're right. I realized later on that Xenix did have a x86 
version along with SCO.  I've never heard of Scenix, though.  But it 
does make me interested enough to check into it.

At the time, though, a good portion of the Unix OS's were on mainframes, 
and since I learned most of my C and PASCAL programming on one, the Unix 
availability on the x86 chipset didn't really register.  In the 80s I 
was your typical self-absorbed teen. :)



-- 
Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt -- Caius Julius Caesar


Mark Haney
Sr. Systems Administrator
ERC Broadband
(828) 350-2415

Call (866) ERC-7110 for after hours support