7 Nov
2007
7 Nov
'07
3:40 p.m.
On Nov 7, 2007 10:30 AM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 7 Nov 2007 at 10:58, Richard wrote:
I have, in my posession, a disk set for 8086 Xenix. I have not
attempted to boot it as the accompanying scribbled note indicate that
it won't work on a machine with a VGA installed, and I haven't
bothered to try uninstalling the VGA from one of my pre-286 machines.
I doubt that it comes with the development kit, so it's pretty useless
except to show that it works.
Eric
Umm... IIRC, Xenix was a unix implementation that
didn't even require
virtual memory, ran on x86 architectures (386?) and required very
little memory; certainly much less than Win96 since Xenix was
available in 1986.
Early Xenix ran on a 286. I don't think it ever ran on anything
less.