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[David Curtis]

Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> Mark Haney wrote:
>> Florian Diesch wrote:
>>> "Mark Haney" <mhaney at ercbroadband.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>> .
>>>>>     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??)
> 
http://www.aux-penelope.com/downloads.htm

For those of you with an old mac in the closet, and no social life!

And also Minix, the micro-kernel unix, is getting some interest outside 
of academia.

http://www.minix3.org/