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[Florian Diesch]

"Mark Haney" <mhaney at ercbroadband.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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.

It was a Xenix derivative for Siemens-Nixdorf hardware. Maybe not that
popular outside Europe.


> 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. :)

We are talking about the early 90s, Linux arrived in 1992. The big
time of the Unix workstations, when high-end graphics meant SGI.


   Florian
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