Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 16:44:23 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu> 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: <4.3.2.7.2.20010807163907.044b1c30@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108071610020.14442-100000@inconnu.isu.edu> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010807155426.0485aab0@localhost>
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At 04:24 PM 8/7/2001, John Galt wrote: >On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, 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. > >You had us all going, right up to the point of you misspelling "Xenix". That was a typo. I intended to hit the "X", but missed and hit the "Z" instead. >Nobody using a computer at the time would've forgotten Xenix: it worked >splendidly on such greats as the PC/XT and the TRS-80 mod16 (neither of >which had a MMU...). > >http://www.unicom.com/pw/sco-xenix IIRC, the TRS-80 Model 16 used bank switching as a primitive form of memory protection. Sort of a poor man's MMU. I wasn't aware that it ever COULD run on the XT without a daughterboard with a "real" CPU. (Microway and one or two other vendors were selling such boards, as I recall.) --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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