5 Sep
2007
5 Sep
'07
9:11 a.m.
On 5 Sep 2007 at 10:15, Brian Wheeler wrote:
I don't suppose anybody knows where one would dig
up old unixes for 8086
or 80286 based PCs? Source would be a big bonus. I've been playing
with the bcc compiler and the V7 source and just curious what "real"
ports looked like.
If my memory serves, the first ports of Unix for the 80286 weren't
for the PC/AT (i.e. earlier) and were for Xenix, not Unix (yes, I
know, a minor quibble). It was an odd arrangement--Microsoft was
working on the utilities, etc. and Intel was working on the kernel
code. The whole affair seemed to take forever.
Cheers,
Chuck