5 Sep
2007
5 Sep
'07
12:12 p.m.
Hi
Seems that some copies have survived:
ac:~/Desktop/OSes/microport paco$ strings build-disk.img | more
SYSV386
ERROR reading bootstrap
Base memory < 512k, can't boot UNIX
Diskette unit 0 must be quad density
Loading Unix
Paco
On 9/5/07, Holger Veit <holger.veit at iais.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
Chuck Guzis said:
Long time ago I had 5.25" floppies for a Microport/286 Unix in hands,
later a 386 version of that. I think this was a real SYSV UNIX, not a
Xenix UNIX-lookalike. Must have been in the mid 80s, but eventually these
floppies got lost when the 386 and the various 386bsd and Linux
experiments came up. Unfortunately, this Unix died together with Microport
long ago, and not only I have lost the media set.
Regards
--
Holger
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.