11 Nov
2001
11 Nov
'01
2:06 p.m.
At 05:06 PM 11/11/01 -0500, you wrote:
We may not all mean the same thing by "branded", but ISTR
seeing the banner "Microsoft XENIX" on that Radio Shack 68000
machine whose model number I can never recall...
Tandy Models 16 and 6000, it was a dual proc box, with both a Z-80 and a
68K processor. on seperate system boards. the 68K cboards were in a
cardcage in the back, and IIRC the Z-80 wqas in the bottom of the
machine. You could boot CP/M, Trs-Dos, CP/M-68K or Xenix on the
beasties... (I used to own 2 of them) a local ISP (Eskimo north) got
started originally on model 1's, then 3's (in the guise of a BBS) then he
moved it up to a Model 16 running Xenix (still a bbs) then when the whole
"internet" thing started to take off, he used the 16's he had as shell
boxes with a couple of suns to do the talking to the internet......
He used to do a mod on the 16/6000 ramboards that involved running a
couple of wires and changing out the PALS on them to allow 1 Meg per board
instead fo the 256K they shipped with (256Kx1 chips instead of 64Kx1 chips)
> Remember,
Xenix was originally a Microsoft product, they then sold it
off
to SCO
(for a % ownership in SCO)
Actually Xenix was never a Microsoft branded product. It was Microsoft's
but they only sold Xenix as OEM'd versions to vendors like SCO and lots
of HW vendors who then added they modifications to support their specific
products (like Apricot, whose machines were far from plain PCs).