On 4/20/05, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > begin quoting Andrew Lentvorski as of Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 05:26:04PM -0700: > [snip] > > Really? I'm not sure I would take that bet. I seem to recall Xenix > > being sold for the Trash-80 Model II which ended its production run > > in 1984. I'm pretty sure that puts it ahead of almost all of those > > things except possibly AT&T. > > > > See: http://home.iae.nl/users/pb0aia/cm/modelii.html
The requested URL /users/pb0aia/cm/modelii.htm was not found on this server. > Cool. I didn't realize the Trash-80 has Xenix support. I wouldn't > take that bet now, either. :) > > -Stewart "Just how popular WAS Xenix in its day, and what happened?" Stremler Some tend to forget that there were computers before the Intel x86 and the Motorola 680x0. In addition, the availability of Xenix for the TRS80 did not mean that it was a wide-spread operating system for that hardware. < http://oldcomputers.net/trs80ii.html > notes that: 1985: March - Radio Shack introduces the Tandy 6000 multiuser system. It features Z80A and 68000 processors, 512 KB RAM, 80x24 text, graphics, 1.2-MB 8-inch disk, optional 15 MB hard drive, TRS-DOS, or XENIX 3.0. It supports up to 9 users The Unix time line is (approximately): mid 60-'s to mid 70's developed at Bell Labs early 70's to mid 80's spread throughout Universities By the mid 80's, wide-spread networking of computers was taking place, one of the most common CPU's was the Digital Equipment VAX11-780, which was first produced in 1978. There are estimates that nearly half of the 11-780's produced ran Unix despite the fact that they came bundled with a different operating system. See < http://www.dei.isep.ipp.pt/docs/unix.html > for a sketchy sketch. See _A Quarter Century of Unix_, Peter Salus, Addison-Wesley 1994 for much more detail. ISBN: 0201547775 I can't find my copy at this instant, or I would quote from it. There are some excerpts from the book on the Amazon web site. carl -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
