Remember when M$ made a UNIX clone? Xenix was initially written my M$ and ran on various hardware including the Radio Shack CoCo (Color Computer - a Moto6800 processor). ><> ... Jack -- Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart... Colossians 3:23 "If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate" - Henry J. Tillman "Anyone who has never made a mistake, has never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein "You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people." - Admiral Grace Hopper, USN Life is complex: it has a real part and an imaginary part. - Martin Terma “Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.” - Nikola Tesla I don't enjoy a massacre of ads. Hackaday.com says this should slaughter their existance.
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 9:51 PM, Michael Chaney <[email protected]> wrote: > Actually, probably the most popular unix of the time was something SCO (the > original SCO) was selling that ran on PC hardware. It was used in a lot of > vertical market apps, some of which I was familiar with. It was > particularly popular with the Unibase derivatives. > > GNU very much existed, and was kind of a userland looking for a kernel at > the time. Actually, most GNU stuff sucked, honestly, and it was a bit of a > joke as to why anyone would replace the working userland in whatever Unix > they were using with the GNU stuff. When Linux came along, GNU was just > waiting. > > Hard to believe it's been 20 years. > > Michael > > > On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Tilghman Lesher <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Well, sure, but you have to understand some of the context of the >> time. 4.4 BSD was not yet out, so none of the BSD derivatives yet >> existed, nor had AT&T sued Berkeley yet. If you had a PC at that >> time, you ran DOS and Windows 3.1 (or OS/2, if you wanted something >> with protected memory). I don't think BSD even ran on 386 computers >> at that time. So if you wanted a Unix environment, you either got >> yourself an account with a university that had such a machine or you >> ran Minix, which was really just intended as a teaching tool, not a >> serious environment. GNU might have existed, but the Hurd kernel was >> far from finished. >> >> Into that scenario, where the only people running Unix are running it >> on minicomputers, your application base is extremely small. So unless >> you liked Unix for the sake of running Unix, you probably weren't very >> interested in that. After all, it's the applications, not the >> operating system, which drives adoption. >> >> When you really think about the environment into which it was >> launched, it is really amazing that it took off and grew the way it >> did. >> >> -Tilghman >> >> On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Chris Faulkner <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Notice the unsure attitude about the tone of the email. Like he wasnt >> > sure >> > if people would like it.. >> > >> > On Aug 25, 2013 12:45 PM, "Curt Lundgren" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> He done good. >> >> >> >> >> >> On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Chris Faulkner >> >> <[email protected]> >> >> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> https://www.linux.com/news/software/linux-kernel/734956-linuss-famous-email >> >>> >> >>> -- >> >>> -- >> >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> >>> Groups >> >>> "NLUG" group. >> >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> >>> [email protected] >> >>> For more options, visit this group at >> >>> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >> >>> >> >>> --- >> >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> >>> Groups >> >>> "NLUG" group. >> >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> >>> an >> >>> email to [email protected]. >> >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> -- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> >> Groups >> >> "NLUG" group. >> >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> >> [email protected] >> >> For more options, visit this group at >> >> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >> >> >> >> --- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> >> Groups >> >> "NLUG" group. >> >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> >> an >> >> email to [email protected]. >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > >> > -- >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> > Groups >> > "NLUG" group. >> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > [email protected] >> > For more options, visit this group at >> > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >> > >> > --- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> > Groups >> > "NLUG" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> > an >> > email to [email protected]. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > -- > Michael Darrin Chaney, Sr. > [email protected] > http://www.michaelchaney.com/ > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. 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