On 06/09/2014 02:00 PM, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
I respectfully disagree about UNIX "just working". It was expensive in that you had to run it on expensive hardware. Most folks didn't run UNIX on x86 home-based systems, for example.
NOT! Towards the end of the 1980s and early 1990s there were a large number of x86 systems. You might have heard of, for example, SCO. But there was also a number small firms , such as Convergent, which grew big enough to swallow SCO. Oh, and there was also this port of UNIX to a variety of microprocessors including the 8086 and 80286 called XENIX. It was from Microsoft. -- "Politics is the art of appearing candid and completely open, while concealing as much as possible." -- Brian Herbert, -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org