Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-25 Thread asmith
Hi again, some old brain-cells got excited with the "good-ol-days" and other names have surfaced like "Superbrain","Sirius" and "Apricot".Sirius was Victor in the USA. If you go done the so-called IBM compatible route then the nearly compatible nightmares will arise and haunt you, your

Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-25 Thread asmith
Hi, If you're really keen on old mags and manuals I'll go up to attic and look around. I know there are old SCO Xenix & TCP/IP, as well as Byte and Dr Dobbs On Sun, 24 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Andrew Smith in Edinburgh > Sorry, but I'm hanging on to my old computer manuals. The

Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-25 Thread asmith
Hi, I first used Unix on a PDP11/44 whilst studying for my Computer Engineering degree at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. I think they and Queen Margaret College, London were the first folk running Unix version 6 outside Bell Labs. If anyone knows where Patrick O'Callaghan is now (ask

Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-25 Thread asmith
Hi, If you're really keen on old mags and manuals I'll go up to attic and look around. I know there are old SCO Xenix TCP/IP, as well as Byte and Dr Dobbs On Sun, 24 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Andrew Smith in Edinburgh Sorry, but I'm hanging on to my old computer manuals. The

Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-25 Thread asmith
Hi, I first used Unix on a PDP11/44 whilst studying for my Computer Engineering degree at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. I think they and Queen Margaret College, London were the first folk running Unix version 6 outside Bell Labs. If anyone knows where Patrick O'Callaghan is now (ask

Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-25 Thread asmith
Hi again, some old brain-cells got excited with the good-ol-days and other names have surfaced like Superbrain,Sirius and Apricot.Sirius was Victor in the USA. If you go done the so-called IBM compatible route then the nearly compatible nightmares will arise and haunt you, your lucky if the