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It was a way to run Unix (with a large U) on inexpensive hardware so it could be used for POS terminals and similar applications. This enabled it to capture mar
by Yetanfou 6y ago
It was a way to run Unix (with a large U) on inexpensive hardware so it could be used for POS terminals and similar applications. This enabled it to capture markets where the workstation and server Unix manufacturers simply were too expensive.
- azalemeth 6y agoDid it "do" anything special -- or was "cheap" its USP?
- cmrdporcupine 6y agoIt ran on x86 before anything else like that existed, which tbh was a pretty big deal.
- Yetanfou 6y agoNo, nothing special, its thing was that it ran on off the shelf PC-hardware which made it cheap to deploy.
- Angostura 6y agoIt was also simple, comparatively nicely packaged Unix. You could pop it on a PC and it would run.