Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 00:32:20 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>, chat list <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How did the MSFT monopoly start? Message-ID: <3B70EB04.9805B9E3@mindspring.com> References: <20010807145112.C39962@luke.immure.com> <20010806142544.A64348@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <15214.52633.581653.632317@guru.mired.org> <20010807145112.C39962@luke.immure.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20010807155426.0485aab0@localhost>
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Brett Glass wrote: > > At 03:43 PM 8/7/2001, Brad Knowles wrote: > > > Surely a free version of Unix based on BSD would not have been "expensive". > > The only alternative at that point might have been, ironically, > Microsoft Zenix. Which the PC, lacking an MMU, couldn't support. Xenix didn't support VM until much later in its life; I ran Xenix for the x86 on a 10MB HD original PC XT system. Everything had to compile and run in Small model. The 286 supported both Small and Medium model, which gave you access to more than 64k of data space at once... man, was that living! 8-) Xenix also ran on Sun 3 hardware, but was never released on it outside Microsoft's walls, and ran on 68000 hardware from Radio Shack: the Tandy 6000. It used the two CPU fault restart trick... 8-) -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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