[TUHS] Dave Cutler recollection about Xenix
Sebastien F4GRX
f4grx at f4grx.net
Tue Oct 24 17:58:13 AEST 2023
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Sebastien
Le 21/10/2023 à 18:40, John Cowan a écrit :
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 11:37 AM Paul Ruizendaal <pnr at planet.nl> wrote:
>
>
> An interesting set of videos indeed, although I wish they were not
> all chopped up in 5 minute segments.
>
>
> The alternative nowadays is for YouTube to chop videos up themselves
> with commercials.
>
> The below site has a very nice summary of Xenix at Microsoft (I’ve
> linked it a couple of times before):
> http://seefigure1.com/2014/04/15/xenixtime.html
>
>
> By this time, there was growing retail demand for Xenix on
> IBM-compatible personal computer hardware, but Microsoft made the
> strategic decision not to sell Xenix in the consumer market;
> instead, they entered into an agreement with a company called the
> Santa Cruz Operation to package, sell and support Xenix for those
> customers.
>
>
> That's not entirely true. The first personal computer I used was an
> IBM PC/AT, and I bought MS-branded Xenix (System III) for it. It was
> a box full of floppies, and it came with the MS C compiler (CL.EXE
> etc.) which could compile for Xenix or cross-compile for MS-DOS. That
> way I could write command-line programs on Xenix and deliver them for DOS.
>
> In a way it is the same dynamic that kept C89 and Bash in place
> for so long: people know it, it is good enough and it works
> everywhere.
>
>
> C89 has plenty of obvious successors; bash does not.
>
> Seeing the Cutler interviews reminded me of the old joke that
> there are only two operating systems left: Unix and VMS (Linux
> being Unix-family and Windows being VMS-family).
>
>
> OS/360 (now in the form of z/OS) is still very much with us. z/OS is
> Posix-certified, but it is fairly distant from Linux, *BSD, or
> Solaris. (It is not to be confused with Linux running on System Z
> virtualized.)
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