15 Jun
1998
15 Jun
'98
4:16 a.m.
First off your dates are grossly in error. MS in the
persona of Gates
was involved in putting basic on the altair via MITS. When CP/M was
gaining ground as the dominent 8080/z80 OS microsoft was the dominent
language supplier. The majik system was a z80 running cp/m and MSbasic
compiler, MAC and L80, and maybe Multiplan.
Yep. I know that. But MS dominance didn't exactly happen overnight. They
didn't have much of a hold in anything until the IBM PC took off...
Apple: Apple softcard combind package of CP/M and MS
languges and a z80.
TRS80: Disk basic.
PDP-11: Didn't MS do a unix varient?
UNix... they did have a hand in a PC unix and apps for it.
You mean Xenix?
Ciao,
Tim D. Hotze
15 Jun
15 Jun
5:43 a.m.
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10:44 a.m.
At 07:16 PM 6/15/98 +0300, you wrote:
Yes, XENIX. They also made it (XENIX) for the Tandy 6000 and for some
Zenith computers (248?).
Joe
First off your
dates are grossly in error. MS in the persona of Gates
was involved in putting basic on the altair via MITS. When CP/M was
gaining ground as the dominent 8080/z80 OS microsoft was the dominent
language supplier. The majik system was a z80 running cp/m and MSbasic
compiler, MAC and L80, and maybe Multiplan.
Yep. I know that. But MS dominance didn't exactly happen overnight. They
didn't have much of a hold in anything until the IBM PC took off...
>Apple: Apple softcard combind package of CP/M and MS languges and a z80.
>TRS80: Disk basic.
>PDP-11: Didn't MS do a unix varient?
>UNix... they did have a hand in a PC unix and apps for it. 
1:36 p.m.
Joe wrote:
At 07:16 PM 6/15/98 +0300, you wrote:
Yes, XENIX. They also made it (XENIX) for the Tandy 6000 and for some
Zenith computers (248?).
No, Tandy made Xenix for the Tandy 6000, SCO made Xenix for the Zenith
and other Intel computers.
--
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
First off
your dates are grossly in error. MS in the persona of Gates
was involved in putting basic on the altair via MITS. When CP/M was
gaining ground as the dominent 8080/z80 OS microsoft was the dominent
language supplier. The majik system was a z80 running cp/m and MSbasic
compiler, MAC and L80, and maybe Multiplan.
Yep. I know that. But MS dominance didn't exactly happen overnight. They
didn't have much of a hold in anything until the IBM PC took off...
>Apple: Apple softcard combind package of CP/M and MS languges and a z80.
>TRS80: Disk basic.
>PDP-11: Didn't MS do a unix varient?
>UNix... they did have a hand in a PC unix and apps for it.
16 Jun
16 Jun
2:26 a.m.
At 09:36 PM 6/15/98 -0400, you wrote:
No, Tandy made Xenix for the Tandy 6000, SCO made Xenix for the Zenith
and other Intel computers.
I now have a ****huge**** pile of Tandy 6000 manauls. They all say
copywrite MS.
I HAD a Zenith computer with XENIX, I'm pretty sure the on screen
copyright notice also said MS but I may be wrong.
Joe
Joe wrote:
>
> At 07:16 PM 6/15/98 +0300, you wrote:
> >>First off your dates are grossly in error. MS in the persona of Gates
> >>was involved in putting basic on the altair via MITS. When CP/M was
> >>gaining ground as the dominent 8080/z80 OS microsoft was the dominent
> >>language supplier. The majik system was a z80 running cp/m and MSbasic
> >>compiler, MAC and L80, and maybe Multiplan.
> >
> >
> >Yep. I know that. But MS dominance didn't exactly happen overnight.
They
didn't have much of a hold in anything until the
IBM PC took off...
>Apple: Apple softcard combind package of CP/M and MS languges and a z80.
>TRS80: Disk basic.
>PDP-11: Didn't MS do a unix varient?
>UNix... they did have a hand in a PC unix and apps for it.
Yes, XENIX. They also made it (XENIX) for the Tandy 6000 and for some
Zenith computers (248?).
4:28 p.m.
Joe wrote:
I now have a ****huge**** pile of Tandy 6000 manauls. They all say
copywrite MS.
I HAD a Zenith computer with XENIX, I'm pretty sure the on screen
copyright notice also said MS but I may be wrong.
Micro$oft licensed the source from Bell Labs. They could not make it a
product themselves (though they did borrow many concepts that went into
MS-DOS 2.0 and on into NT), so they sublet it to other companies who
actually did make it work, notably Altos, Tandy and SCO. Yes, there are
Micro$oft copyright notices. On your Zenith, they should have been
between the AT&T and SCO copyright notices.
--
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
Yes, XENIX. They also made it (XENIX) for the
Tandy 6000 and for some
Zenith computers (248?).
No, Tandy made Xenix for the Tandy 6000, SCO made Xenix for the Zenith
and other Intel computers.
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