Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 12:35:38 -0700 (MST) From: Doug MacKintosh <doug@doug.net> To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Microsoft Source (fwd) Message-ID: <200011121935.MAA26831@gw.doug.net> In-Reply-To: <20001111191459.H4535@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Nov 11, 2000 7:14:59 pm"
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> > and Microsoft was actually running a large chunk of their language > > engineering on Xenix on Sun machines, as late as 1988 (I got a call > > from a Microsoft employee wanting to buy a copy of our > > communications software for Xenix running on Sun hardware; when I > > said "What?!?", he said "Oh, that's right, it's an internal product > > only". Originally, Xenix only ran on 68000 hardware. > > Do you have any evidence for this? Admittedly, there was 68000 > hardware at the time, but it was very early, and there's no obvious > reason why Microsoft (which was definitely in charge of XENIX) would > have bothered to port to an architecture they didn't plan to use, > especially since it was big-endian and 32 bit, whereas both the PDP-11 > and i86 were little-endian and 16 bit. I'd suspect that you're > extrapolating here. Gents, My first Unix machines, which I purchased very-well-used in 1987 or so, were two M68000 (10MHz) contraptions manufactured by a company called Spectrix. They ran Microsoft Xenix (v3.2? v2.3? - I forget). The machines, I believe, were manufactured in 1981 or thereabouts. Spectrix called them model 30s. They used the Intel Multibus and had a couple dozen serial ports, 2MB of RAM, two 29MB SASI drives and a QIC tape. I heard a rumour that these boxen were actually Sun 0's or some such thing. If anyone can shed any more light on the origins of these boxes, I would love to hear about it. I no longer have the machines but I am now curious again. -- Doug -- doug mackintosh the unix geek doug@doug.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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