11 Nov
2001
11 Nov
'01
6:35 a.m.
At 10:26 AM 11/11/01 -0500, you wrote:
On November 11, Richard.Sandwell(a)roebry.co.uk wrote:
> I have an Apricot Xen 'mainframe' which is a 286 based msdos generic from
> 1986. Its not ibm compatible. Comically, it does have a copy of Windows V1
> on its disk which runs, well, like all versions of windows ;-)
> Its role was a fileserver for an ms-net network, hence the awful
> 'mainframe' name. I've always been intrigued that there was a port of
> xenix available for this machine - anyone know anything about that, or
> about xenix on a 286 based system in general?
Remember, Xenix was originally a Microsoft product, they then sold it off
to SCO (for a % ownership in SCO)