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What caught my eye was that Radio Shack was selling a version of UNIX back in 1983! From page 5: "TRS-XENIX is derived from the powerful UNIX operating system
by rglovejoy 14y ago
What caught my eye was that Radio Shack was selling a version of UNIX back in 1983!
From page 5:
"TRS-XENIX is derived from the powerful UNIX operating system developed by Bell Laboratories. UNIX has been extensively field-tested for the past decade and has demonstrated outstanding performance under heavy workloads. The TRS-XENIX "core", or runtime package, includes the modules required to set up and operate a multi-user system. It includes a hard disk initialization routine, a text editor for modifying the parameters of the system, utilities to transfer files from TRSDOS diskettes, RUNCOBOL to support our COBOL software, and full password protection."
One question, though: is this the same XENIX that Microsoft was licensing from AT&T?
- FigBug 14y agoAccording to Wikipedia, yes. "Microsoft did not sell Xenix directly to end users; instead, they licensed it to software OEMs such as Intel, Tandy, Altos and SCO, who then ported it to their own proprietary computer architectures." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix
- Dav3xor 14y agoeskimo.com in Seattle ran on a Model 16 for several years. It was definitely Microsoft Xenix. My brother wrote the multiuser chat system on there, nice piece of software.
- RyJones 14y agohell, Microsoft's internal mail system was Xenix. The last remnants of Xenix weren't removed from Microsoft until the Tide servers came online - ITG ran a xenix machine as a Usenet spool and telnet proxy until 96 or 97.
- tnuc 14y agoFrom my bad memory; You could run XENIX programs on Windows NT up to NT 3.51 It is very likely there are still traces of XENIX left in Windows 8.
- asveikau 14y agoYou must be thinking of the POSIX subsystem. NT's design was meant to have several personalities, of which Win32 was one, OS/2 was one, and POSIX was one, supposedly on equal footing. The POSIX subsystem still exists, I believe you can get it by the control panel under "Programs and Features", "Turn Windows features on or off", and when you check the box it directs you to a website to get GNU tools to run on top of it. (This part used to come from a company called Interix, acquired by MS in '99 according to Wikipedia.)
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- justincormack 14y agoI know one of the ex-Interix guys it was an interesting story.
- kator 14y agoYes the boot screens would say Copyright 1983 Microsoft. You also had to pay $750.00 just to get Vi and a C compiler!