On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 12:13 PM, Tom Marchant < 0000000a2a8c2020-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Feb 2016 11:53:00 -0600, John McKown wrote: > > >On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 11:36 AM, Tom Marchant < > >0000000a2a8c2020-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > > >> On Fri, 5 Feb 2016 06:43:59 -0600, Bill Woodger wrote: > >> > >> >the original "IBM PC-type" (although pre-dating the IBM PC) operating > >> system from Microsoft. > >> > >> There was no operating system from Microsoft that predated the IBM PC. > >> > > > >According to > >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_DOS_operating_systems PC-DOS > 1.0 > >was released in 1981 but in 1979 - MS made a licensed version of Xenix > for > >the 8086 > >ref: > > > http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Torvalds/Finland_period/xenix_microsoft_shortlived_love_affair_with_unix.shtml > > I stand corrected. But Xenix was not a "PC-type operating system", but a > port of Unix. > Ah. Difference in viewpoint. My machines at home run Linux. And they are Intel based (core i7 & Xeon), and most call them a "PC". So, is Windows a "PC-type operating system"? I truly am curious about people's ideas in this area. I don't know of anybody who runs a "PC-type operating system" if by that you mean something like MS-DOS. Hum, even my smartphone's Android system is more advanced than MS-DOS. So is my lobotomized turtle (no, I don't have one of those. I just read that phrase in a book as a "put down" about a intelligence of a mobster's "goon". <giggle/>) > > -- > Tom Marchant > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Werner Heisenberg is driving down the autobahn. A police officer pulls him over. The officer says, "Excuse me, sir, do you know how fast you were going?" "No," replies Dr. Heisenberg, "but I know where I am." Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance -- Jim Horning Schrodinger's backup: The condition of any backup is unknown until a restore is attempted. He's about as useful as a wax frying pan. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
