15 Jan
2003
15 Jan
'03
2:29 p.m.
Jarkko Teppo wrote:
I've got Xenix 286 disks + manuals somewhere. I
bought it second-hand
in ~1992 and got many hours of fun from it. Okay, months of fun.
The only thing lacking (back then) was the compiler which was a
separate product, at least I didn't have it. Looking back,
Minix 1.7 was a definite improvement if you were stuck with
286 machines like I was.
While 86 sucked for programs more than 64k code and data,
remember for the longest time UNIX was developed on
such small systems.
I'm writing this in Mozilla; the compilation took
~5 hours on an
Alphastation 500/500 (21164 with 8MB cache) with 512MB memory.
I still get nostalgic moments when I think about minix and xenix and
the time when I knew what every single program in /usr/bin actually was :-)
Or try and find where stuff like doc's are put now days. Open source
is good but the Doc's need to be improved. Ben.