Re: phantom files

Mark Haney wrote:
Florian Diesch wrote:
"Mark Haney" <mhaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Karl Larsen wrote:
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Mark I am tired of you making every effort to find something to
correct that I said. Yes I know about MINNIX and it was VERY Expensive.
Way out of my price range and it really didn't use the 88386 chip. It
did some strange things.
I'm not making any effort. It's not like I have time to correct you,
but someone needs to. If you don't know anything about what you're
talking about, then DON'T. AFAIK, MINIX wasn't particularly expensive,
but it was also a /research/ OS and not for general use.
Minix is a Unix-like OS for educational purpose made by Andrew
S. Tanenbaum.

When Linux was invented there were at least three commercial Unices
for i386 (SCO Unix, Scenix and Xenix), and 386BSD was in development.



Florian

Yeah, you're right. I realized later on that Xenix did have a x86
version along with SCO. I've never heard of Scenix, though. But it
does make me interested enough to check into it.

At the time, though, a good portion of the Unix OS's were on mainframes,
and since I learned most of my C and PASCAL programming on one, the Unix
availability on the x86 chipset didn't really register. In the 80s I
was your typical self-absorbed teen. :)

Don't forget A/UX! (anyone even know how to get a copy of that??)

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