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[Joep L. Blom]

Florian Diesch schreef:
> "Mark Haney" <mhaney at ercbroadband.org> 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.
>> 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.
> 
> It was a Xenix derivative for Siemens-Nixdorf hardware. Maybe not that
> popular outside Europe.
> 
> 
>> 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. :)
> 
> We are talking about the early 90s, Linux arrived in 1992. The big
> time of the Unix workstations, when high-end graphics meant SGI.
> 
> 
>    Florian
Yes, Florian!
WOrked with IRIX from 1992 till 1998 on 32-bit and 64-bit (we Even sold 
an ONIX, the big graphic machine) and installed the most fantastic 
graphic software on it. Well now you can do the same thing on your 
desktop with a noteven top-end game-system!
Actually the first linux I used was kernel 0.99 which came on 10 floppies.
Another thing: Tannebaum developed Minix when a professor on the Free 
University in Amsterdam as a teaching tool. It was never ment to be used 
as a full blown OS. Linus Pauling developed Linux based on Minix, I 
think starting in 1991.
This thread in developing into a history of computer OS's!
Joep