On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Chuck Guzis wrote:
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. I have an early Microsoft MSDOS 2.0 OEM announcement that
talks about eventually unifying Xenix and MSDOS. I guess that goes
in the same category as Microsoft OS/2 2.0...
I learned Microsoft Xenix on a Tandy 6000HD in 1985, which had a 68000
CPU. It also ran on the TRS-80 16B.
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology
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