gossamer axe said:
>> Please, nobody ran for cover. As a matter of fact MS has been
>> chasing
>> UN*X ever since it entered the server market, and just as they saw a
>> gap
>> in the market they could fill, along came Linux. Linux fills that
>> gap
>> and starts to reclaim LAN services like file and print sharing for
>> UN*X.
>> Now Linux is touching the desktop, and MS is trying to figure out
>> how
>> they can keep the inside track in that race.
>
> My memory could be waaaay off, but didn't microsoft have a version of
> Unix called Xenix? or something like that back in i don't know, maybe
> early 80s?
My first exposure to computers and Unix was Xenix 3.2F running on an
Altos 686 ( 6 serial ports 286 cpu). It was all green screens and text
and the kernel was ~75K.
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