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Date:      Tue, 07 Aug 2001 15:55:14 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        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:  <4.3.2.7.2.20010807155426.0485aab0@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <p05100312b796116e6b3f@[194.78.241.123]>
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>

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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.

--Brett


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