New subject: cctalk Digest, Vol 51, Issue 18 (8088 Xenix)

7 Nov 2007

On Nov 7, 2007, at 2:00 PM, Chuck wrote:

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  On 7 Nov 2007 at 10:58, Richard 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... 
There were versions for Lisa and (not used but seen pictures of) an 
8086 version - perhaps on one of the early Altoses.

Later versions of Xenix were 286 and up, and later (with XENIX System V 
386) 386 and up.